Professional Affiliations
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is the national, professional organization for all Certified Public Accountants. Its mission is to provide members with the resources, information, and leadership that enable them to provide valuable services in the highest professional manner to benefit the public as well as employers and clients. Brandon R. Parkhurst is a member of the AICPA.
In fulfilling its mission, the AICPA works with state CPA organizations and gives priority to those areas where public reliance on CPA skills is most significant.
Parkhurst Wealth Management, PC is a member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA). NAPFA was established in 1983 to provide consumers with access to financial professionals who meet the highest membership standards possible for professional competency, comprehensive financial planning, and Fee-Only compensation. Since then, NAPFA has expanded its original expectations and standards, attracting approximately 1,000 NAPFA-Registered Financial Advisors and several hundred Student, Academic and Financial Services Affiliates nationwide. The continued presence of NAPFA in the media and the public provides for the promise of further growth in the years to come.
Parkhurst Wealth Management, PC is a member of the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA), an organization that supports the users of business and intangible asset valuation services and financial forensic services, including damages determinations of all kinds and fraud detection and prevention, by training and certifying financial professionals in these disciplines.
NACVA’s mission is to provide resources to members and to enhance their status, credentials, and esteem in the field of performing valuations, financial forensics, and related specialty advisory services. To further this purpose, NACVA will advance these services as an art and science, establish standards for membership in the Association, provide professional education and research, foster practice development, advance ethical and professional practices, enhance public awareness of the Association and its members, and promote working relationships with other professional organizations.
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards is a professional regulatory organization which promotes ethics, integrity and professional standards in personal financial planning. This gives the public an opportunity to have access to -- and benefit from -- competent, ethical financial planning. Individuals who meet rigorous certification requirements are certified by CFP Board to use its certification trademark.
Brandon R. Parkhurst is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional.
Parkhurst Wealth Management, PC is a member of the Financial Planning Association™ (FPA), a membership organization for the financial planning community. FPA is the largest association of professionals dedicated to championing the financial planning process. FPA members are committed to supporting the financial planning process and to helping people make smarter decisions to achieve their goals and dreams. FPA believes that everyone needs professional, objective advice to make smart financial decisions and that when seeking the advice of a financial planner, the planner should be a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certificant.
Parkhurst Wealth Management, PC is a member of The Garrett Planning Network, Inc., the nation's premier network of professional, Fee-Only financial advisors dedicated to providing independent, objective financial planning and advice, to people from all walks of life, on an hourly as-needed basis. Only 1% of the nation's financial planning firms are structured this way. As staunch consumer advocates and Fee-Only client fiduciaries, members of The Garrett Planning Network continue to demonstrate their commitment to serving the public's best interests by making competent, Fee-Only financial advice accessible to all people.
Parkhurst Wealth Management, PC is a member of the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts™ (IDFA™), which is the premier national organization dedicated to the certification, education and promotion of the use of financial professionals in the divorce arena.
The financial issues inherent to every divorce case are often times the ones that are the most overlooked. However, once a divorce settlement has been signed, it’s too late to change it. Who should keep the house? How much will it cost to live post divorce? How much alimony is there going to be and for how long? Will the custody arrangement affect child support? How can the retirement accounts be split and the money accessed? How can a business be offset? Should a business be valued? What is the value of health care benefits? Most important of all, will the clients be able to financially survive (and thrive) with the settlement post divorce? Certified Divorce Financial Analysts™ are trained to answer these questions and more for men and women in the process of divorce and to provide litigation support for their attorneys, which helps them prove and often settle their case.
Brandon is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (“CDFA”).
Parkhurst Wealth Management, PC is a member of the MD Preferred Service Network, a national internet based physician resource center, which recently chose to work exclusively with NAPFA and its members in the development and launch of the MD Preferred Financial Advisor Network. This new program offers the nation’s physicians access to Fee-Only financial advisors who act strictly in a fiduciary capacity and who have successfully completed NAPFA’s stringent application and review process.