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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:
Benton Design Photography: National Endowment for Financial Education/Paul
Trantow of Altitude Arts, Povy Kendal Atchison, David Muenker, Marcia Ward, and
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