In partnership with the NYSE, Executive Education is launching the first accounting class crafted exclusively to enable board directors to better address financial integrity in the boardroom. The course, Accounting Essentials for Corporate Directors: Enhancing Financial Integrity, gives directors the ability to critically evaluate financial information and assess management proposals. Accounting Essentials for Corporate Directors is open to any board member of a publicly traded company as well as board members of privately owned companies. Prominent corporate, regulatory and academic experts will lead the course, including guest lecturers the Hon. William J. McDonough, chairman of the Public Accounting Oversight Board, the Hon. Harvey J. Goldschmid, commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Katherine Schipper of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The course will be held April 19-21, 2004, in New York City.