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John Wiley & Sons and KeepSmart Expand New Online CPA Review Offerings
NEW YORK - June 2, 2000 - John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the publisher of the Wiley CPA Examination Review by Professor Patrick Delaney of NIU (Northern Illinois University) partnered in late January 2000 with KeepSmart to launch a dot.com for accounting students who wanted to study for the CPA exam online. Billed by KeepSmart founder, Dr. William Grollman, as "the new CPA exam review for the Net generation", Wiley Virtual CPA Exam Review (www.wileyvirtual.com) combined the traditional and well-known Delaney review program with state-of-the-art Internet learning technology.
An online demo is available at www.wileyvirtual.com and features:
- Top-quality content from the Delaney CPA Examination Review self-study program, which has been published by Wiley in print for over 27 years;
- Full-motion video or slide-show lectures, plus high-quality graphics and study aids;
- Practice exams with hundreds of multiple choice questions; and
- User-friendly features such as "hot links" to relevant Web sites and built-in calculator and printing functions.
In May, Wiley Virtual.com expanded it offerings to include a 6-month unlimited-access subscription option to its introductory 1-year unlimited-access subscription and now allows CPA candidates to sign up for either the complete exam, or for any of the four individual parts.
Wiley Virtual.com becomes more interactive·
As the program enters its fifth month, Wiley and KeepSmart have expanded the user-focused and interactive features of Wiley Virtual CPA Exam Review at www.wileyvirtual.com to include:
- A free motivational and how-to video by Professor Debra Hopkins of Northern Illinois University on the best ways to make taking the CPA exam stress-free and organized. Professor Hopkins is a national and international speaker on CPA exam preparation and a long-time colleague to Dr. Patrick Delaney
- A question-and-answer discussion forum lead by Professor Duane Lambert of California State University
- In July 2000, Wiley Virtual.com will go even further to add a diagnostic test function, a user performance scorecard, customizable sample exams based on the most recent AICPA-released questions and a hot-linked glossary of key accounting terms, phrases and ratios.
Of the Wiley Virtual CPA Exam Review, Robert Chiarelli, Publisher of the John Wiley & Sons Professional Accounting program, said "Wiley strives to help accounting professionals do their jobs successfully. Wiley College publishes the leading college textbooks in the profession, for example the Kieso and Weygandt classic accounting texts. Now, after having worked with Patrick Delaney for decades on the Wiley CPA Examination Review books, software, and audio, we're proud to expand Wiley's presence and to bring Professor Delaney's top-notch review program to the Web."
Dr. William Grollman, President and CEO of KeepSmart, and former professor of accounting at the Fordham University Graduate Business School, calls Wiley Virtual.com "a program that uses the latest Internet technology to offer students the interactivity of a live classroom experience, with a program that lets them study anywhere they want, any time they want."
About John Wiley & Sons: (NYSE: JW.A and JW.B)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is an independent, global publishing company specializing in professional and consumer books, software, online and network products and subscription services, as well as textbooks and educational materials for colleges and universities and scientific and technical books and journals. Wiley publishes 1,500 new titles in a variety of formats each year and has publishing, marketing, and distribution centers located in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Wiley has published CPA review materials for almost three decades and has a large publishing program in corporate and professional public accounting, including GAAP, Mergers and Acquisitions, Valuation, Nonprofit Accounting and Finance, Cost Management, Healthcare Accounting, and more. In addition to the well-known Kieso and Weygandt textbooks, Wiley has published the Ernst & Young tax guides for over 10 years. Wiley's corporate Internet site can be accessed at www.wiley.com.
About KeepSmart:
KeepSmart, Inc. is a multi-million dollar continuing professional education (CPE) development company headquartered in Hawthorne, NY. The company has specialized in professional video and audio development, production, and training in the accounting field for two decades and has recently acquired additional companies and product lines that cover training and education markets in accounting, law, engineering, and real estate. KeepSmart is at the forefront of adapting Web-based technology to the professional learning markets, and all of its principal products can be accessed through its Web site.
About Dr. Patrick Delaney:
Dr. Patrick Delaney, until recently the program chair for accounting at Northern Illinois University, retired earlier this year to devote his time to other professional interests, including the exciting prospect of taking his work of three decades into the Internet age with Wiley Virtual CPA Exam Review. Dr. Delaney passed away before being able to join Wiley and KeepSmart fully in this exciting new venture, but he has left his legacy of thousands of students who have used his self-study program to pass the CPA examination.
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