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Academy of Financial Services
Academy of Financial Services has over 400 members worldwide. Annual meetings, presenting papers, chair session, and so on are offered. Also, it provides the Financial Services Review, a quarterly journal showcasting the latest in the theoretical and empirical research in personal financial management.

Accountant's Home Page
Links to various business sites, with a special emphasis on sites useful to those in accounting and finance.

American Accounting Association
A trade association focusing on accounting education and research, where you can check out ongoing research projects, read Accounting Review, or link to other accounting related sites on the Internet.

American Advertising Federation
The AAF brings together the U.S. advertising industry by hobnobbing with government officials, awards and conferences, public service activities and more. The only professional advertising association that binds the mutual interests of corporate advertisers, agencies, media companies, suppliers and academia. The AAF's 50,000 members share a commitment to make advertising a positive force in America's economy and culture.

American Association of Finance and Accounting
A network of executive search specialists who recruit and place CPA and MBA professionals in U.S. and international locations.

American Bankers Association
The largest banking trade association in the country. Its membership includes community, regional, and money center banks, and holding companies, as well as savings associations, trust companies and savings banks. The ABA primarily devotes its resources to developing educational and training programs for bankers, participating in legislative and bank regulatory activities and educating consumers about banking and credit.

American Finance Association
American Finance Association provides pages about the American Finance Association, Journal of Finance, Contents of Future Issues, Tips from the editors, Articles in forthcoming issues, and more.

American Marketing Association
The American Marketing Association (AMA) is the worlds largest and most comprehensive professional society of marketers. The AMA is the only organization that provides direct benefits to marketing professionals in both business and education and serves all levels of marketing practitioners, educators and students.

American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth
The largest national organization of venture-capital-backed companies and other entrepreneurial enterprises focusing on the public policy issues that affect emerging growth companies. AEEG's nationwide network of 10,000 entrepreneurs serves as a united voice for emerging growth companies and provides an opportunity for entrepreneurs to directly voice their opinions to policy makers in an effective and powerful manner. Information on its recent agenda, membership, and a calendar of events around the United States of interest to emerging growth companies.

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
The AICPA is the premier national professional association for CPAs in the United States. Designed to enhance the effectiveness of the Institute's communications with its members, AICPA Online continues the AICPA tradition of unrivaled service to the profession.

American Risk and Insurance Association Web Site
The ARIA is the premier professional association of insurance scholars and other thoughtful insurance and risk management professionals. ARIA emphasizes research relevant to the operational concerns and functions of insurance professionals, and provides resources, information and support on important insurance issues.

Association for Financial Counseling and Planing Educator
This web site provides the Financial Counseling and Planning Journal. Also, it offers book review, AFCPE newsletter, and Best Article Awards: 1992-1998.

Bank Administrator Institute
Bank Administration Institute (BAI) is the leading professional organization devoted exclusively to improving the competitive position of banking companies through strategic research and a broad range of
educational offerings.

Bank Marketing Association
BMA is the nation's premier association for financial services marketing. This site will plug you into the financial services marketing community and current events affecting the industry.

BizWomen
BizWomen provides an online interactive community for successful women in business: to communicate, network, exchange ideas, and provide support for each other via the Internet. It offers 'one stop service' for the professional woman who wants to further expand her reach into the business world.

Business Women's Network
BWN enables two million business women and corporate America to find information, network, procure financing and stay abreast of an ever changing women's business climate through publications, and extensive information database and a knowledgeable and professional staff. BWN is dedicated to the promotion of business and professional women by providing assistance to corporations, businesswomen's organizations and state and federal agencies. BWN strives to be the authority on issues affecting business women and the growth of women owned businesses.

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards
A nonprofit professional regulatory organization, the CFP Board benefits and protects the public by establishing, maintaining, and enforcing education, examination, experience and ethics requirements for the practice of financial planning.

Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Society
The CPCU Society is a not-for-profit association founded in 1944 to promote and ensure excellence in insurance and risk management. Today more than 28,000 CPCUs in 152 chapters across the United States are members of the Society. The Society encourages professionalism, continuing education, and high ethical standards in the insurance industry.

Financial Executives Institute
The premier organization for senior corporate financial executives. Conferences and seminars, publications, committees, and research, and the activities of its 91 chapters -- help corporate financial executives hone their professional skills and enhance their companies' operations by giving them opportunities to learn from leaders in their profession and from one another.

Financial Management Association
FMA is the global leader in developing and disseminating knowledge about financial decision making. Members include finance practitioners and academicians and students who are interested in the techniques and advances which define the field of finance.

Financial Management in Government
FinanceNet is the Internet's home for public financial management worldwide. It was established by Vice President Gore's National Performance Review in Washington, D.C. in 1994 and is operated by the National Science Foundation (a Federal agency) under sponsorship of the U.S. Chief Financial Officers
Council.

Financial Service Professionals New!
It has long established for more than 70 years. It has been helping individuals, families, and businesses achieve financial security. With their strong commitment to delivering only those financial products and planning services that are in their clients' best interests, the Society's 32,000 members nationwide are uniquely qualified to assist the public in reaching their future financial goals—today, tomorrow, and into the next millennium.

Futures Industry Association
FIA is the only association representative of all organizations that have an interest in the futures market. FIA has more than 200 corporate members, reaching thousands of industry participants.

Global Business Network
WorldView Service is designed to enhance learning and to help organizations think more effectively about the business environment and the tools for developing adaptive, successful strategies. GBN's worldwide network includes more than sixty leading companies and select individuals from the sciences, arts, business, and academia.

Government Finance Officers Association
This web site offers a World Search, a free resource that provides information on Countries, Economies, & Political Conditions around the world.

Independent Bankers Association of America 
The Independent Bankers Association of America is the primary voice for community banks in the United States.
IBAA is an advocate for some 5,500 community banks with 16,000 locations nationwide, representing the  industry before Congress, state legislatures, regulators and the media.

Independent Banker Association of Texas
This web site offers Bank pind system, Services endorsed vendors, Legal counsel corner, Educations and events, etc.

Institute of Management Accountants
The Institute of Management Accountants The IMA is the leading professional organization devoted exclusively to management accounting and financial management as stated in our Mission and Vision Statements. IMA membership helps you stay abreast of the changes affecting the management accounting and financial management professions. It provides new insights and ideas in these evolving fields and gives members ethical guidance as well.

Institute of Management Foundation
Mission is to promote the development, exercise and recognition of professional management.

Institute of Practitioners in Advertising
Based in London, the mission of IPA is to serve, promote, and anticipate the collective interests of advertising agencies; and in particular to define, develop, and help maintain the highest possible standards of professional practice within the advertising business.

IOMA
The Institute of Management and Administration serves as a guide to business resources on the Internet.

Midwest Finance Association
Midwest Finance Association is dedicated to developing and disseminating information on finance discipline to members and other interested individuals through annual professional meetings and sponsorship of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.

Mortgage Bankers Association
The national association of real estate financiers.

Mutual Fund Education Alliance
A national trade association of directed market mutual funds provides facts and educational information to mutual fund investors. This free site provides a wide range of information and services to mutual fund investors. Information about more than 40 mutual funds companies including major shareholder services, a listing if the company's different funds, and basic company information.

The National Association of Credit Management
NACM is committed to enhancing, promoting, and protecting the many interests of credit management. The Association represents business credit grantors in many types of industries, including manufacturing, wholesaling, service industries, and financial institutions. NACM is a member owned association which exists solely to serve and support its members.

The National Association of Forensic Economics
NAFE is a non-profit professional association of economists who serve as experts in litigation. NAFE is a non-profit pro-fessional association of economists, financial analysts, appraisers, rehabilitation economists and attorneys. Membership is drawn from several hundred universities, pri-vate consulting firms and law firms across the fifty states, U.S. territories and seven coun-tries. NAFE is not an accrediting association. It is a professional/academic association.

National Association of Investors Corporation
This site is dedicated to assisting investment clubs, but there are many tool, such the "Company Information and Investing Ideas" page. that are useful to the individual investor.

The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors
NAPFA has helped Fee Only planners and other Fee Only professionals enhance their skills, market their services, and gain a voice with government and consumers alike. In doing so, NAPFA has grown into the most respected confederation of financial planners in the country and the chosen "organizational home" for Fee Only advisors everywhere.

National Business Incubation Association
The National Business Incubation Association provides members with the resources needed to develop and manage successful business incubators. Whether you are exploring the concept of a business incubator for your community or already have an established incubation program, NBIA services are designed to keep you apprised of industry best practices and save you time and money.

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Last updated on: November 27, 2002.