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CPAs fulfill certain CPCU certification requirements.


CPAs now fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil  
tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils
1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises.

2.
 the related studies requirement to become chartered property casualty underwriters Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) is considered to be the premier professional designation in property-casualty insurance and risk management. The rigorous curriculum includes eight (8) post-secondary undergraduate, or graduate-level courses covering topics such as  (CPCU CPCU Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter
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CPCU Custody Pending Completion of Use
), a professional designation for the property-liability insurance business.

To receive the CPCU designation, CPAs still must fulfill experience and ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a  requirements and pass a three-hour examination for each of the following nine courses:

* Ethics, insurance perspectives and insurance contract analysis.

* Personal insurance and risk management.

* Commercial property insurance and risk management.

* Commercial liability risk management and insurance.

* Insurance operations.

* The legal environment.

* Management.

* Accounting and finance.

* Economics.

The American Institute for CPCUs exempts CPAs from the related studies requirement on the basis of their educational back-ground, preparation and insurance experience. The CPCU program provides members the skills needed to analyze, evaluate and interpret the provisions of property-liability insurance contracts.

For more information about the CPCU program, contact the AICPCU AICPCU American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters  at (800) 644-2101 from 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. eastern time, weekdays.
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Title Annotation:chartered property casualty underwriters
Publication:Journal of Accountancy
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:May 1, 1995
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