Curriculum

• Personal Risk Management and Insurance
• Investment Concepts and Applications
• Personal Tax Planning and Management
• Employee Benefits and Retirement Planning for Individuals
• Estate Planning and Wealth Transfers
• Financial Planning Process and Case Analysis
• Workshop: Financial Calculator and Time Value of Money (6 hours)

Personal Risk Management and Insurance

Instructor: Stanley Horn, CFP™

• Financial Planning Process
• Identify Risk Exposure
• Property & Liability Policy Analysis
• Health & Life Insurance Property Analysis

Investment Concepts and Applications

Instructor: Arv Vilutis, Ph.D., CFP™, ChFC, CLU

• Regulation of securities and markets
• Client risk assessment
• Investment theories
• Asset allocation strategies and tactics
• Modern portfolio theory

Personal Tax Planning and Management

Instructor: Sharon Stodghill, CPA

• Fundamentals of income taxation
• Tax computations and concepts
• Tax planning
• Alternative minimum tax
• Tax shelters

Note: This course may be waived by CPAs who have been active in preparing individual tax returns during the last five years.

Employee Benefits and Retirement Planning for Individuals

Instructor: Bruce Wise, CFP™, MCRS

• Social Security and Medicare benefits
• Retirement plan types
• Qualified plan characteristics
• Distribution options
• Individual retirement planning

Estate Planning and Wealth Transfers

Instructor: Jeffery H. Kaplan, JD, CPA

• Estate planning process
• Federal estate taxation
• Trusts and trustees
• Valuation of assets
• Estate planning techniques

Financial Planning Process and Case Analysis

Instructors: William G. Christian, J.D., CFP™

• Financial Planning Process
• Ethics
• College Funding
• This course is designed to help students integrate their knowledge of all the other courses into case formats tested by the CFP Board.
• Students will take an active role in analyzing cases.

Workshop: Financial Calculator and Time Value of Money (6 hours)

• Introduction to the time value of money
• Problem solving: present value, future value, and annuities
• HP 10B II financial calculator basics

Note: Students preparing for the CFP exam must be intimately familiar with the basics and intricacies of the financial calculator. The Calculator Workshop is vital to passing the CFP exam. It is also important that professionals who rely on computer software have the ability to interpret and test the output for accuracy and relevance. The calculator required for the course is the HP 10B II and it is the student’s responsibility to obtain this calculator and bring it to the workshop.

University of Houston does not certify individuals to use the CFP™, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, and certification marks. CFP™ certification is granted only by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards to those persons who, in addition to completing an educational requirement such as this CFP™ Board-Registered Program, have met its ethics, experience and examination requirements.