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Award
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James H. Wilson,
CPA/PFS
Blackburn, Childers & Steagall, PLC
James H. Wilson, CPA/PFS, is currently the Director of Personal Finance Planning
at Blackburn, Childers & Steagall, PLC in Johnson City, Tennessee. He holds a
B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Miami, has an M.B.A. in Management
from Florida Atlantic University, and has earned the PFS (Personal Financial
Specialist) designation, which is awarded by the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants (AICPA). He is a member of the Tennessee Society of Certified
Public Accountants and the AICPA.
Jim
has served as chairman of the AICPA's Personal Financial Planning Conference
Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Personal Financial
Planning Division of the AICPA's. The author of The CPA's Guide to Financial
Planning, published by Longman Financial Services Publishing, Inc., he has
also published articles in numerous professional journals. He has authored a
course for the AICPA entitled "Wealth Utilization and Transfer", and is also the
author of the computer software PFP Notebook, which is nationally
marketed by Brentmark Software of Orlando, Florida and one of the few PFP
software programs recommended and sold through the AICPA. In 1990 and 1991 Jim
was designated as the outstanding presenter of AICPA CPE courses in Tennessee.
His most recent project is a workbook for engaged couples entitled Let's Talk
About Money Before You Tie The Knot.
On
November 1, 1988, the PFP Division awarded Jim with the first annual Outstanding
Service Award. The award is given to a CPA who has served the public interest by
enhancing the quality of personal financial planning services and has provided
outstanding service to the AICPA's PFP Division. In July 1990, the LINC Society
of CPA Financial Planners selected Jim as the "CPA Financial Planner of the
Year".
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