The AAFM Board of Standards^TM was founded in 1996, via a merger between the American Academy of Financial Management & Analysts (AAFM) and the Founders Advisory Committee of the Original Tax and Estate Planning Law Review^TM. The AAFM was originally established in as a professional organization for investment managers, lawyers, and analysts. The Law Review was founded to examine strategic wealth and estate planning issues for Law, CPA, PhD, and MBA graduates and to award the wealth management, estate planning, and tax designations.

The American Academy of Financial Management^TM is a worldwide Board of Standards and financial professional organization, with members in 151+ countries offering our exclusive certified designations, charters, and masters certification to candidates who meet the high standards. AAFM Board of Standards approves and recognizes top 800+ accredited business schools, law schools and programs around the world. If you desire to be recognized by our worldwide academic & professional organization and improve your education, resume, or credentials, then, you are taking the best step to a better career and achieving graduate financial designations. You can gain board certification and a charter as a financial professional, wealth manager, market analyst, financial and investment planner, asset manager, trust and estate planning analyst, or economist. AAFM offers several industries recognized graduate designations to qualified professionals..

AAFM Board Certification and Designations are certification credential marks for Wealth Managers, Financial Analysts, Investment Bankers, Accountants etc. and Degree holding Financial Planners conferred by the American Academy Board of Standards. To receive authorization or accreditation to use AAFM Board Certification and Designations, the candidate must meet education, degree, examination, experience, continuing education, and ethics requirements, and pay good standing or certification fees.

AAFM currently recognizes over 120,000 PhD's, Lawyer's, CPA's, AACSB Graduates, & Masters Degree Holders as associate members and executive members in over 151 nations. As there had not been a graduate professional financial organization specifically for MBAs, CPAs, Lawyers and PhDs, the AAFM^TM has met this need and become the organization of choice for highly educated individuals or industry experts because AAFM requires an accredited college degree for membership and certification.

AAFM mission is to serve its global membership and stakeholders as a world leader in educating and reinforcing the international knowledge of executives and potential leadership of financial based institutions. AAFM™ now has representative offices in the US World Trade Center N.O. Center, Hong Kong, Beijing, India, Dubai, Kuwait, Latin America and South America, Singapore, The Caribbean, Europe, and more. Moreover, AAFM is a candidate for recognition from the United Nations. AAFM™ mandates consent to high standards of professional conduct, and AAFM activities are International in nature and scope. As seen in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Financial Times, The Hindu National, The El Norte Latin America, The Arab Times, and The Beijing Times.

Our AAFM Certification Training Partners have trained clients that include: Deutsche Bank, Citibank, Xerox, NASA, HSBC Bank, China Construction Bank, National Bank of Kuwait, The Government of Dubai, BAE Systems, United States Securities and Exchange Commission, The US NAVY, Department of Energy, The Department of Interior, 3M Asia Pacific, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard Singapore, Indian Overseas Bank, Shangri La Hotels, and HUNDREDS MORE.

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AAFM^® Global Recognition includes members from over 150 countries around the world and alliances with some of the top associations, agencies, top educational institutions, NGO Non- governmental Organizations, and leading industry.

AAFM^® is a TUV Accredited Body with ISO 9001 Quality Certification and ISO Certification for Training under ISO 29990 Standards worldwide.

TUV Accredited by the Technischer Uberwachungs-Verein Osterreich, : 140 year old EU/Austrian Technical Inspection Association) which are German organizations that work to validate the quality of products and services of all kinds to protect the public and for safety. IBS GAFM - EU Standards Council of the International Board of Standards..

ISO 9001 Certified for Quality as a Certification Body of our EU Standards Council of the GAFM IBS International Board of Standards.

ISO 29990 Certified for Non Formal Training of our EU Standards Council of the GAFM IBS International Board of Standards International Board of Standards - Professional Standards Member of the The CHEA Council of Higher Education International Quality Group (CIQG).