National CPA Financial Literacy Commission

Mission:

To lead the CPA profession in a national effort to advance the financial literacy of Americans.

Objectives:
  1. Increase CPAs’ awareness of America’s financial literacy crisis.
  2. Motivate CPAs to volunteer in personal finance education programs. 
  3. Increase the public’s awareness of the need for personal finance education and of the 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy effort.
  4. Identify, evaluate and recommend opportunities for state societies, CPA firms and individual CPAs to partner with organizations involved with financial literacy.
  5. Coordinate and liaise with AICPA leadership, committees, AICPA Foundation, State CPA Society leadership and key accounting organizations.
  6. Represent the AICPA’s 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy efforts before the media, national organizations and government entities.