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FSC professor earns Certified Information
Technology Professional designation

LAKELAND, Fla. (April 29, 2002) - Bernice R. Killory, assistant accounting professor at Florida Southern College, has been awarded the Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP) designation by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

The CITP designation, established in 2000 by the AICPA, is awarded to CPAs with significant experience in information technology strategic planning, implementation, management and business strategies for information systems. The CPA/CITP serves as the bridge between management and the technology department, leveraging the CPA's strategic and business skills.

Killory met the requirements to earn the designation, which included a CPA certificate, evidence of her technology business experience and life-long learning activities. Experience and learning include the areas of information technology strategic planning; information systems management; systems architecture; business applications and e-business; security, privacy and contingency planning; systems development, acquisition and project management; systems auditing and internal control; databases and database management. CPAs who have earned the CITP designation must recertify their accreditation every three years. To do so, they must document their involvement in technology services and complete a prescribed amount of related life-long learning activities during this three-year period.

The AICPA is the national professional association of CPAs with more than 350,000 members in public practice, business and industry, government and education.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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