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PFS credential preparation

Personal Financial Planning Boot Camp Bundle Logo aicpa

  Free |   AICPA |   Apr 2017 |   Specialized Knowledge and Applications |   AICPA Store
Who Will Benefit?
  • CPAs and PFS Credential candidates
Learning Objectives

This course will prepare you to:

  • Participate in a complete review of all topics that relate to personal financial planning, dispelling perceptions that it primarily deals with managing and selling investment and insurance products. This knowledge will help participants become more successful at assisting their clients to navigate personal financial decisions

The AICPA's Personal Financial Planning Boot Camp is an informative, highly engaging and fast-paced review of all personal financial planning (PFP) topics including estate, retirement, investment, insurance/risk-management planning and the financial planning process, as well as including the new Statement on Standards in PFP Services.

Written by expert authors Tom and Susan Tillery, these experienced instructor and practitioners illustrate concepts with real-life scenarios and practical guidance, the instructors will both improve your retention for the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) credential exam and enable you to increase productivity and income back in your office. The course is based on the comprehensive outline of topics covered on the PFS credential exam, so participants will receive from a broad understanding of how these topics interact with one another.

These courses are designed for practitioners who want to brush up on the PFP body knowledge and for CPAs preparing for the PFS exam. Even if you are not taking the PFS exam, this is a great overview on how all areas of personal financial planning work together to serve your clients in excellence.

Included In This Series:

PFP Boot Camp: Risk Management/Employee and Business-Owner Planning

PFP Boot Camp: Estate and Charitable Planning

PFP Boot Camp: Retirement and Elder Planning

PFP Boot Camp: Investment and Education Planning

PFP Boot Camp: PFP Standards and Responsibilities

PFP Boot Camp: Calculator and Time Value of Money

PFP Boot Camp: Personal Financial Planning Process, Concepts and Environment

Topics covered:
  • Personal financial planning: Technical: Estate planning, Intermediate
  • Personal financial planning: Technical: Charitable planning, Intermediate
  • Personal financial planning: Technical: Risk management & insurance planning, Intermediate
  • Personal financial planning: Technical: Compensation & benefits, Intermediate
  • Personal financial planning: Technical: Investment planning, Intermediate
  • Personal financial planning: Technical: Retirement planning, Intermediate
  • Personal financial planning: Technical: Elder & special needs planning, Intermediate
  • Personal financial planning: Technical: Specialized planning issues: Education planning, Intermediate
  • Personal financial planning: Technical: Practice management & professional standards, Intermediate
  • Personal financial planning: PFS credential preparation

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