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President
ECFA
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Dan Busby is a CPA and is recognized as one of the nation’s top experts in tax and finance issues for clergy, the church and other nonprofit organizations.
His career has been varied: 10 years with the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, where he served as Controller, 10 years as the founding partner of a CPA firm in Kansas City, Busby & Keller (now Keller & Owens) and 11 years as the Chief Financial Officer of The Wesleyan Church at their denominational offices in Indianapolis. Since 1998, he has served as ECFA's Vice President, Senior Vice President, and he became President of ECFA in 2009.
He is a graduate of Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, with a Master’s degree. In 1997, he received an honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree from Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Bartlesville Oklahoma.
He and his wife, Claudette, have two children and two grandchildren.
He has spoken in 37 states, appeared on TV, and has been a featured guest on a number of radio programs. He is a prolific writer with over 250 of his articles having been published since 1990.
He has received many awards. The National Association of Church Business Administration honored him with the Significant Contributor Hall of Fame Award. In 1995, the editor of Your Church magazine named him as one of the three CPAs in the U.S. who ministers would prefer to prepare their tax return.
Dan is a past national board member of the Christian Management Association and has served on numerous nonprofit boards for 110 man-years.
His two tax and finances books, The Minister's Tax & Financial Guide and The Church and Nonprofit Tax & Financial Guide, have been annually revised and published by Zondervan since 1990. Another book, Donor-Restricted Gifts Simplified, was released in 2007 and is the only book written primarily on this topic.
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