Acadient to Offer New Online Estate and Wealth Planning Courses and Tools From The Academy of Multidisciplinary Practice.Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2002 The Academy of Multidisciplinary mul·ti·dis·ci·pli·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or making use of several disciplines at once: a multidisciplinary approach to teaching. Practice, Inc., the first ever organization to provide estate and wealth planning resources for multidisciplinary professionals, has partnered with Acadient, Inc., the nation's leading producer of interactive multi-media education for the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industry. Under the terms of the partnership, Acadient will offer The Academy's Internet-based services, including: 1. The Virtual University, which is the first virtual educational professional development program designed to help planners earn a professional designation that crosses multi-disciplines. The Virtual University offers three designations for planning professionals, including: a. Multidisciplinary Counselor in Personal Wealth Planning b. Multidisciplinary Counselor in Business Succession Planning Management Succession Planning In organizational development, succession planning is the process of identifying and preparing suitable employees through mentoring, training and job rotation, to replace key players — such as the chief executive officer (CEO) — , and c. Multidisciplinary Counselor in Planned Giving Planned Giving is an area of fundraising that refers to several specific gift types that can be funded with cash or property. These gift vehicles are based on United States tax law. The Academy's Virtual University courses are accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. by The Estate and Wealth Strategies Institute at Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. , which is recognized as the global think-tank for estate and wealth strategies planning. Course descriptions are included as background in this release. Enrollment details can be found at www.mdpacademy.com. 2. The Journal, which is the leading online source of advanced practical tools and comprehensive reference sources for estate and wealth strategy planners. Those include: a. Cutting-Edge Current Reviews. These are weekly digests of condensed con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. reviews of the best and most important articles selected from professional planning literature that represents more than 300 of the top legal, financial, insurance and accounting magazines and journals. b. Practice-Ready(TM) Tools. Accompanying Cutting-Edge Current Reviews will be its "how to" component, Practice-Ready(TM) Tools, a comprehensive toolkit designed to help professionals implement the valuable new ideas "New Ideas" is the debut single by Scottish New Wave/Indie Rock act The Dykeenies. It was first released as a Double A-side with "Will It Happen Tonight?" on July 17, 2006. The band also recorded a video for the track. . 3. The Encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books . The Academy will also provide Acadient its virtual Encyclopedia, the world's first virtual compendium com·pen·di·um n. pl. com·pen·di·ums or com·pen·di·a 1. A short, complete summary; an abstract. 2. A list or collection of various items. that offers answers to the 5,000 questions most frequently asked of financial advisors by their clients. "The Academy will provide online courses, tools and valuable resources for Acadient clients to help them broaden their knowledge in the estate and wealth strategies arena," said Tom Wilson, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of The Academy. "We want to make it easier for Acadient clients to integrate multidisciplinary knowledge, and apply it to their businesses so that they can provide increased value to their clients." And Greg Titus Titus, Roman emperor Titus (Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus) (tī`təs), A.D. 39–A.D. 81, Roman emperor (A.D. 79–A.D. 81). , president of Acadient, said: "More and more financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against professionals are being asked to meet the growing, complex needs of their clients. To do that, advisors must become multidisciplinary in their approach and knowledge. And that's why The Academy's courses and tools are so relevant, critical and timely. The courses and tools will enable financial planning professionals to acquire and apply the knowledge they need to better serve their clients." About Acadient Acadient is the premier provider of interactive, multimedia education to the financial services industry. Based in Boston, the company develops, hosts, and manages courseware Educational software. See CBT and OpenCourseWare. (application) courseware - Programs and data used in Computer-Based Training. , webcasts, and private-label online universities for financial services companies and industry organizations. The company's team of instructional and technology design experts deliver customized courseware and manage the online, offline, and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. components for their personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. online learning systems. Visit www.acadient.com for more information. About The Academy The Academy, affiliated with Michigan State University, was created to promote collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. among the financial planning professions, academia, business and philanthropy philanthropy, the spirit of active goodwill toward others as demonstrated in efforts to promote their welfare. The term is often used interchangeably with charity. . It brings together the nation's leading experts in the legal, accounting, financial planning, trust and planned giving professions. Through its online services, it provides professional development and practice-building opportunities to help planning professionals respond to the increasingly complex financial environments of their clients. Visit www.mdpacademy.com for more information. Background on The Academy's Designation Programs Multidisciplinary Counselor in Personal Wealth Planning This Course provides professionals with the knowledge and confidence to work with clients in personal wealth planning. After successfully completing Course testing, the professional will be awarded the designation Multidisciplinary Counselor in Personal Wealth Planning by The Academy. This designation will acknowledge academic accomplishment and current multidisciplinary knowledge that will assure public confidence in the professional's personal wealth planning knowledge and skills of the professional's credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. . The Multidisciplinary Counselor in Personal Wealth Planning designation assures a scope of knowledge and education that are relevant to all professionals who participate in estate and wealth strategies disciplines (accountants, attorneys, trust officers, life insurance professionals, financial advisors, and planned giving professionals). Recipients of the designation will be capable of working at the highest professional levels within a collaboration of colleagues in meeting the diverse planning needs of client families. Multidisciplinary Counselor in Business Succession Planning This Course provides professionals with the knowledge and confidence to work with clients in business succession planning. After successfully completing Course testing, the professional will be awarded the designation Multidisciplinary Counselor in Business Succession Planning by The Academy. This designation will acknowledge academic accomplishment and current multidisciplinary knowledge that will assure public confidence in the professional's business succession planning knowledge and skills of the professional's credentials. The Multidisciplinary Counselor in Business Succession Planning designation assures a scope of knowledge and education that are relevant to all professionals who participate in business succession planning (accountants, attorneys, trust officers, life insurance professionals, financial advisors, and planned giving professionals). Recipients of the designation will be capable of working at the highest professional levels within a collaboration of colleagues in meeting the diverse planning needs of client families who own business interests or who have business succession planning needs. Multidisciplinary Counselor in Planned Giving This Course provides professionals with the knowledge and confidence to work with clients in planned giving. After successfully completing Course testing, the professional will be awarded the designation Multidisciplinary Counselor in Planned Giving by The Academy. This designation will acknowledge academic accomplishment and current multidisciplinary knowledge that will assure public confidence in the professional's personal wealth planning knowledge and skills of the professional's credentials. The Multidisciplinary Counselor in Planned Giving designation assures a scope of knowledge and education which are relevant to professionals who participate in planned giving (accountants, attorneys, trust officers, life insurance professionals, financial advisors, and planned giving officers). Recipients of the designation will be capable of working at the highest professional levels within a collaboration of colleagues in meeting the diverse planned giving needs of client families. |
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