AICPA receives award from CPA Wealth Provider for promoting CPAS as financial planners.

CPA Wealth Provider magazine recently honored the AICPA with a special Award of Excellence. The Institute won for its efforts to promote the CPA as a financial planner.

The AICPA was cited for numerous initiatives in the past year dedicated to promoting the knowledge, skills and expertise of the CPA as financial planner to the general public and other financial planners. Among the efforts specifically named were comprehensive handbooks jointly developed with the Foundation for Fiduciary Studies to promote prudent investment practices for financial planners acting as fiduciaries, two broad-based guides with the National Endowment for Financial...