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Article: Easing college students' transition into the financial planning profession
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- Parenting
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Academy of Financial Services Fall 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract
Like law, accounting, and medicine, financial planning is an applied profession. A mastery of "book knowledge" is insufficient preparation for a student entering an applied profession. The traditional model of financial planning education is inefficient in that it leaves students with a long and expensive transition into professional practice. This article proposes a new model that shortens this transition and includes an overview of various teaching techniques designed to integrate the professional world with the financial planning curriculum. Contact information for select educational 0 programs already working to ease the transition is provided for those desiring to model ...