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The AAFM ® Academy of Financial Management  - American & International

The AAFM ® is the official Certifying Board and Accreditation Council for the Global Certification programs.  We are in Alliance with the Arab Academy which is recognized by the UN and part of the 22 Nation League of Arab States.

Our Middle East Offices are in Saudi Arabia and The UAE United Arab Emirates.  Our local leadership is led by the MELC Middle East Lighthouse Consultants which is a premier intellectual property enforcement firm in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.  Our Asia offices are in Singapore and Beijing; Our Africa Offices are in Johannesburg and Ghana; Our Latin America offices are in: Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, and Peru; Our India Offices are represented in Bombay Mumbai, Chennai Madras, New Delhi and Calcutta Kalkutta.  Our Certification Standards headquarters is based in Colorado USA and we have certification standards advisory councils in India, Africa, China, Singapore, Philippines, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Brazil, Latin America, and Russia.

For over a decade, our certifications have been recognized and offered in conjunction with education and training in the Middle East as a byproduct of the leadership of International Lawyer, George Mentz, Esq.  For several years, the AAFM ® created vendor relationships in Dubai and the GCC with the  IIR Institute of International Research and the IQPC International Quality and Productivity Center.

AAFM ® standards have been formerly recognized by the Chinese Government, Arab League owned Arab Academy, Singapore, USA, Africa and Latin America. The AAFM® and councils from various countries have  agreed to set up a Certification Standards and Quality Assurance Board and Committee for Global Standards.  Over the last decade, the standards for certification have been raised to even new levels of accreditation.

UNMATCHED STANDARDS - Presently, the AAFM® is the only certification board to sanction double accredited government recognized program courses and exam for certification.

If you desire to represent our portfolio of Certification Programs, please contact us to become a accredited provider.

AAFM ® International Board of Standards and our Certification Accreditation Council is a Proud Member of the: ACBSP , AACSB, ICE, NOCA, ANSI, ISBE, NBEA, UN-Civil Society, The AABFS Arabia, the IIFM India and more. If your institution provides accredited education and exams, contact us to have your program sanctioned for professional Certification Education and Exams. See Global Recognition

AAFM ® American Academy of Financial Management ® - History and About the Global Standards Body

The AAFM ® Board of Standards is the official USA based Certifying Body and Accreditation Council for Professional Designations and Institutional Recognition to offer AAFM Certified Programs. The AAFM Board Certifications & Designations are certification credential marks strictly issued by the Board of Standards USA. AAFM was the 1st to recognize double accredited degree AACSB and ACBSP education as a path to "US Based Professional Certification. To receive authorization or accreditation to use AAFM ® Board Certification and Designations, the candidate must meet accredited education, degree, examination, experience, continuing education, and ethics requirements

American Academy of Financial Management ® AAFM ® Board of Standards -

The AAFM ® is the global certifying body and standards council that issues charters, masters designations, and certifications while the Academy's Accreditation Commission recognizes qualified certification-education accredited programs worldwide. The Founding members have their origins with the Tax & Estate Planning Law Review and the Graduate Institute of Leadership in 1993. In 1997, The AAFM ® and Academy was re-instituted via a merger between the American Academy of Financial Management & Analysts (AAFMA) 1995 and the Founders Advisory Committee of the Original Tax and Estate Planning Law Review ™ 1995. The AAFMA 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. AAFM currently recognizes over 55,000 PhDs, Lawyers, CPAs, AACSB Graduates, & Masters Degree Holders as associates, executive members, fellows, and certified members in over 150 nations. Presently, AAFM has over 200 thousand associate members and candidates. As there had not been a graduate professional financial organization specifically for accredited degree holders, MBAs, CPAs, Lawyers and PhDs, the AAFM ™ 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.

Furthermore, AAFM ® has various international recognitions from private and governmental authorities. AAFM board certifications are compliance friendly and listed on investor education websites, and , AAFM is recognized by authoritative sources worldwide such as the US Department of Labor BLS Brochures and the Department of Education Registry and Directory. The AAFM ™ Board also has negotiated direct global trademark agreements with the CFP ™ Board of Standards and the CFA ™ Institute and also with the Arab Academy of Finance and the Indian Academy of Financial Management. Because of the international recognition, the AAFM ® and related certification has been seen and featured in the: Investopedia, Forbes, Reuters, The Wall Street Globe, The Financial Times, The Arab Times, The China Daily, The El Norte Mexico, The South China Post, The Hindu National, CNBC, Forbes, Morningstar, and Black Enterprise Magazine.

AAFM ® is the regulatory Board of Standards for the much sought after AAFM ® Designations and Credentials. The AAFM ® Executive Designation Programs provide the assurance that the holder has met the suggested criteria for graduate credentials set out in cases such as the: Ibanez US Supreme Court Decision. As for high standards, the AAFM ® board certification requires passing 6 different levels of certification criteria. Acceptance into the AAFM ® is a high distinction and requires the holder to possess a graduate level portfolio of skills and knowledge. Acceptance statistics are not high, and the designation when achieved is a high honor strictly for accredited degree and college educated graduates.

The AAFM ® has seen a meteoric rise to affluence and membership in recent years, as financial executives and managers strive to maintain and augment their education, credentials, integrity, and skill sets. The AAFM is the first in the world to extend strategic educational articulation and recognition to 560 double accredited business schools globally through the top business accreditation agencies worldwide: The AACSB ™ International and The ACBSP ™. The AAFM® is the first to have a direct alliance with an ABA recognized post-doctorate law school program and the RSOF Royal Society of Fellows Worldwide. The AAFM ™ has endorsed and sanctioned some of the most elite global conferences on economics, finance, tax, investments, law, wealth management, portfolio management, AML, and ecommerce issues.

AAFM’s 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 and courses in the New York, UK, EU, Hong Kong, San Diego, Beijing, India, Cairo, Taiwan, Vietnam, Europe, Kuwait, Latin America and South America, and Singapore, The West Indies and Bahamas, Europe, and more. Moreover, AAFM ® is a registered/listed Civil Society member with the United Nations. AAFM ® mandates consent to high standards of professional conduct, and AAFM activities are International in nature and scope.

The AAFM ® is a founder of the Accreditation Commission & Council for Finance and Management with AAFM Lead Certification Standards Councils in: Arabia, China, India, Africa, Latin America and more. The ACFM is the AAFM ® Accreditation Council and also the Board of Standards. This board formulates the policies to maintain competency assurance. The highest standards are created when an organization demands experience, education, testing, accredited education, graduate, ethics, and continuing education. The Accreditation Council is the first in the world to demand Graduate Education or Equivalency as a policy.