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AICPA members can now access Business Continuity Planning resources at discounted rates.


The AICPA AICPA

See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
 has entered into an agreement with Prism eSolutions, the leading provider of Business Continuity Planning Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is an interdisciplinary peer mentoring methodology used to create and validate a practiced logistical plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined  (BCP BCP Best Current Practice(s)
BCP Business Continuity Planning
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BCP Book of Common Prayer
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BCP Bureau of Consumer Protection (US Federal Trade Commission) 
) resources. AICPA members now have available, at special rates, state-of-the-art tools to help them evaluate and implement Business Continuity Planning in their own businesses and for their clients.

Driven by world events in recent years, Business Continuity Planning and Business Continuity Management (BCM BCM Baylor College of Medicine
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BCM Business Communications Manager (Nortel)
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) are now vital elements of staying in business and maintaining profitability when crisis occurs. Since CPAs are trusted business advisers and stewards of financial management and fiscal responsibility, it is important they be prepared to provide guidance on BCP and BCM to their clients.

Business Continuity Planning is a structured approach to collecting information, defining the actions and allocating resources that would be needed in the event of an emergency that affects an organization's ability to continue its operations during a crisis. Business Continuity Management includes the monitoring, auditing and updating of the BCP as the organization changes over time.

The use of BCP and BCM have increased significantly in recent years as a result of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, the release of NASD NASD

See: National Association of Securities Dealers


NASD

See National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD).
 rules 3510 (Business Continuity Planning) and 3520 (Emergency Contact information), the 9/11 and other terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , the development of ISO (1) See ISO speed.

(2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI.
 28000 (an international standard for Security Management for the Supply Chain), and other factors.

Prism eSolutions provides a variety of resources to support CPAs and organizations in the areas of BCP and BCM. Prism's Web-based assessment tools, library of BCP content, project management tools, document management and data collection solutions help companies to plan, communicate and respond to crisis in a manner that helps them maintain the continuity of their operations and stay in business when crisis Occurs.

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