CFP Board's Financial Planning Clinic Provides Free Financial Information to the Public.DENVER -- CFP 1. CFP - Constraint Functional Programming. 2. CFP - Communicating Functional Processes. 3. CFP - Call For Papers (for a conference). Board invites the public to attend a free 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 Clinic on Saturday, August 4, 2007, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. This special event will bring together more than 150 CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER Certified Financial Planner (CFP) A person who has passed examinations accredited by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, showing that the person is able to manage a client's banking, estate, insurance, investment, and tax affairs. [TM] professionals from around the country who will share their time and expertise with the general public by answering consumers' financial questions for no cost. At the Clinic, volunteer CFP([R]) professionals will be seated at tables for a wide range of designated financial topics, including: * College Education Financing * Cash Flow and Debt Management * Investment Types and Strategies * Tax Reduction Strategies * Estate Planning Estate Planning The overall planning of a person's wealth, including the preparation of a will and the planning of taxes after the individual's death. Notes: Contrary to popular belief, estate planning involves much more than preparing a will, and it is not only for the * Insurance Planning * Retirement Planning Retirement financial planning refers to a collection of systems, methods, and processes which, in their aggregate, support a family unit's (client's) desire to achieve a state of financial independence, such that the need to be gainfully employed is optional. Consumers can choose a topic they are interested in and head over to an appropriate table for an informal, one-on-one conversation with a CFP([R]) professional. There will be no sale of products or services at the Clinic, and volunteers will not be permitted to hand out business cards or marketing materials. Each attendee will receive a Financial Planning Resource Booklet that includes the volunteers' names and contact information, as well as other helpful financial planning information. The Boston Financial Planning Clinic follows the success of the 2006 Financial Planning Clinic held in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , where nearly 1,500 consumers received free financial information from volunteer CFP([R]) professionals. In surveys conducted after the Los Angeles event, 100% of volunteers said that they would do it again, while 94% of attendees said they would recommend it to someone else. Free online registration and additional information about CFP Board's Financial Planning Clinic is available on CFP Board's Web site, www.CFP.net. CFP Board has organized the Financial Planning Clinic to further its mission of creating awareness of the importance of financial planning and the value of the financial planning process. CFP Board is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. that owns the certification marks CFP([R]), CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER[TM], and the federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who pass the CFP([R]) Certification Examination and meet other high standards of competence and ethics in financial planning. |
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