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Disaster Recovery: A Guide to Financial Issues was written and produced for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the American Red Cross as a public service by the Denver-based National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE); William L. Anthes, Ph.D., President; Brent A. Neiser, CFP, Director of Collaborative Programs; Nan Mead, Director of Communications; and Jeannette Herreria, Project Manager. NEFE is a nonprofit foundation committed to educating Americans about personal finance and empowering them to make positive and sound decisions to reach financial goals. The National Endowment for Financial Education, NEFE, and the NEFE logo are federally registered service marks of the National Endowment for Financial Education. For more information about the National Endowment for Financial Education, visit its web site at www.nefe.org. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is the ISO 9001-certified national professional organization of CPAs, with more than 330,000 members in business and industry, public practice, government, and education. For more information, please visit www.aicpa.org. A significant portion of AICPA members provide personal financial planning services as an extension of their tax and accounting expertise. More than 3,100 CPAs have already earned the AICPA’s Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) designation. The CPA/PFS designation was established for CPAs who specialize in personal financial planning and is awarded exclusively to AICPA members who have demonstrated considerable experience and expertise in this area. To learn more about CPA/PFS designation and personal financial planning, please visit the AICPA’s Personal Financial Specialist Web site at www.cpapfs.org. Alan W. Anderson, CPA, Senior Vice President, Member and Public Interests; Anthony Pugliese, CPA, Vice President, Member Innovation; Anat Kendal, CPA, Director, Financial Planning; Margaret Jannucci, Project Manager, Financial Planning; Randy Ryan, CPA/PFS, Manager, Personal Financial Planning; Joel Allegretti, Manager, Public Relations; Sue Kwiatkowski, Team Leader, Creative Directions. AICPA volunteer members: James K. Mitchell, CPA/PFS; Joseph Call, CPA/PFS, CFP; Mitchell Freedman, CPA/PFS. The AICPA Foundation (“Foundation”) was established in 1922 as a nonprofit foundation to advance the science of accountancy and accounting education as well as to encourage diversity within the CPA profession. Toward those ends, the Foundation will provide opportunities for members and other interested parties to support activities which encourage advancement of the CPA profession through innovative activities. Within the Foundation’s efforts to advance accounting education, it provides support to organizations and projects that promote financial literacy. Governed by volunteers and supported by community donations, the American Red Cross is a nationwide network of local community supporters—volunteers, blood donors, and financial donors—organized into nearly 1,000 chapters, Blood Services regions and field units dedicated to saving lives and helping people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. Led by 1.2 million volunteers and 36,000 employees, the Red Cross annually mobilizes relief to families affected by more than 67,000 disasters, trains nearly 12 million people in lifesaving skills and exchanges more than a million emergency messages for U.S. military service personnel and their families. The Red Cross is the largest supplier of blood and blood products to more than 3,000 hospitals across the nation and also assists victims of international disasters and conflicts throughout the world. Design:
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