Disasters and Financial Planning: A Guide
for Preparedness 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 Mary J. Schultz,
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 (AICPA) is
the ISO 9001-certified national, professional organization of CPAs,
with more than 340,000 members in business and industry, public
practice, government, and education. It sets ethical standards for
the profession and accounting standards for U.S. private companies.
It also develops and grades the Uniform CPA Examination. For more
information, please visit www.aicpa.org.
A significant portion of AICPA members provide personal financial
planning services as an extensionof their tax and accounting expertise.
More than 3,200 CPAs have already earned the AICPA’s Personal
Financial Specialist (PFS) designation. To learn more about the
CPA/PFS designation and personal financial planning, please visit
the AICPA’s Personal Financial Specialist Web site at www.cpapfs.org.
Special thanks to Alan W. Anderson, CPA, Senior Vice President,
Member and Public Interests; Anthony J. Pugliese, CPA, CITP,
Vice President, Business Reporting & Member Specialization;
Anat Kendal, CPA, Director, Financial Planning; Randy Ryan,
CPA/PFS, Manager, Personal Financial Planning; Joel Allegretti,
Manager, Public Relations; Janice Fredericks, AICPA Project
Manager; Sue Kwiatkowski, Team Leader, Creative Directions and
David Colgren, Colcomgroup, Inc. AICPA volunteer members: James
K. Mitchell, CPA/PFS; Joseph Call, CPA/PFS, CFP; Mitchell Freedman,
CPA/PFS; Meloni Hallock, 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 efforts to advance accounting education, it
provides support to organizations and projects that promote financial
literacy.
The American Red Cross is a nationwide network of local community
supporters — volunteers, blood donors, and financial donors
— organized into approximately 900 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. For more information about the American Red
Cross, go to www.redcross.org. |
