About 
NACVA’s mission is to provide resources to members and to enhance their status, credentials, and esteem in the field of performing valuations, financial forensics, and other related advisory services. To further this purpose, NACVA will advance these services as an art and science, establish standards for membership in the Association, provide professional education and research, foster practice development, advance ethical and professional practices, enhance public awareness of the Association and its members, and promote working relationships with other professional organizations.
NACVA has trained over 18,500 CPAs and other valuation and consulting professionals in the fields of business valuation, financial forensics and various related specialty services serving the legal and business communities. Approximately 80% of its members have obtained the Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Accredited Valuation Analyst (AVA), or Certified Forensic Financial Analyst (CFFA) designation. NACVA’s membership comprises some of the most intelligent, dynamic, and innovative people in the professional financial/accounting community. They are a substantial group of professionals all with unique abilities, who, by and large, are the most qualified group in the country to serve the needs of the users of valuation and financial forensic services.
NACVA’s members are all very well educated and experienced in a wide range of financial applications; and all certified members are required to obtain at least 36 hours of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) in these disciplines of focus every three years. The integrity of the Association is furthered by NACVA’s rigorous certification programs, which require a complete understanding of the process. NACVA is confident in its belief that its valuation and financial forensic certification programs are the country’s most objective for specialists in these areas because they emphasize a solid and broad base of knowledge from which a professional can build.
NACVA is a progressive organization, consciously pursuing its goals to attain and disseminate knowledge, develop better theory, increase public awareness of who they are, encourage strategic alliances within the accounting, legal, and business communities, and expand benefits and services to its members. NACVA is the premier organization of professionals representing the dominant force in the valuation and financial forensic consulting communities.
