Experience Level: Basic
Prerequisites: NONE
Delivery Method: Interactive Self-Study
Course Formats: Online / CD-ROM / Textbook / Audio
Course ID: JS-537
CPE Credits: 11
Course Description:
This course is especially designed to teach you the essential knowledge of supervision and the key role that the supervisor plays in today’s organizations. In most organizations it is recognized that the supervisory job is demanding and exacting. Success or failure of the entire organization is often conditioned by the competency at the supervisory level. This course attempts to present and discuss those things that are essential to being a successful supervisor. It is designed to meet the special needs of a person aspiring to a supervisory job, and the practicing supervisor. The course is applicable to all types of supervisory jobs whether in manufacturing, service, or not-for-profit organizations. For the potential supervisor the course affords a concise but complete presentation and acquaintance with the many problems that will be confronted. For the experienced supervisor the material provides an overall review, a broadening of supervisory horizons, and a kindling of new and fresh thinking in the supervisory area.
Course ID: JS-523
CPE Credits: 18
Cost: $199.99
Course Description:
This course teaches you the securities market, the various types of investment securities (stocks, bond, options, futures, tax-advantaged investments, mutual funds, etc.), and the risk-return characteristics of each. It focuses on the principles and tools of investment analysis, asset allocation, portfolio selection and management. The course tells you what are available to invest in, the features of each type of investment, the advantages and disadvantages of each investment category, including global investing, and when a particular investment type might be suitable for you.
Course ID: JS-617
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is the framework used by many publicly traded companies around the world today to report their financial results. With support from important constituencies, the SEC and the FASB have taken several steps toward what will be a major transition from accounting and reporting framework currently in place in the United States to IFRS. In an effort to better understand how convergence will affect financial reporting in the United States, depending on the IFRS implementation action taken by the SEC, this course examines some of the material differences that currently exist between U.S. GAAP and IFRS.
Course ID: JS-514
CPE Credits: 10
Cost: $199.99
Course Description:
This course discusses all facets of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and divestitures, including deciding on terms, key factors to consider, pros and cons, types of arrangements, evaluative criteria, valuation methods, financial effects of the merger, holding companies, takeover bids, SEC filing requirements, accounting and reporting requirements for business combinations, and financial analysis of combinations. Also addressed is emergence of corporate development officers (CDOs).
Course ID: JS-526
CPE Credits: 10
Cost: $99.99
Course Description:
The course covers what every accountant should know about computers and information systems and technology. The practical and efficient use of computer technology is highlighted. Popular accounting, compliance, taxes, audit, write-up, forecasting and statistical, budgeting and planning, project management, activity-based accounting (ABC) software are explained for easy use. The importance of information system and data protection, data bases, artificial intelligence and expert systems, client/server computing, and telecommunications are discussed. The course also teaches you how to make lease-purchase decisions and analyze and evaluate information technology (IT) investments.
Course ID: JS-512
CPE Credits: 20
Cost: $209.99
Course Description:
This course is designed for accountants who must have financial knowledge but has not had formal training in finance. Topics include: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act financial reporting requirements, uses and analysis of financial statements, financial forecasting and cash budgeting, risk and return, valuation of stocks and bonds, time value of money, investing and financing, leverage, optimal capital structure, portfolio selection, management of financial resources, and international finance. The goals of the course are fourfold:
1. It provides an understanding and working knowledge of the fundamentals of financial decision making and strategy that can be put to practical application in day-to-day jobs of accountants and managers.
2. It also concentrates on providing a working vocabulary for communication.
3. It uses examples and illustrations, with emphasis on the practical application of financial concepts, tools, and methodology.
4. It also includes checklists, guidelines, rules of thumb, diagrams, graphs, and tables to aid your comprehension of the subjects discussed.
Course ID: JS-602
CPE Credits: 4
Cost: $39.99
Course Description:
A company’s financial statements sometimes report significantly different results from year to year. This may be due to changes in economic circumstances, but it may also be due to changes in accounting methods or corrections of errors in recording past transactions. Changing the accounting method used can have dramatic impact on a company’s financial statements. This course covers the accounting, reporting, and disclosures associated with changes in accounting principles (method), estimates, and reporting entities as stipulated in ASC 250-10-05, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections: Overall (FAS-154, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections—A Replacement of APB Opinion No. 20 and FASB Statement No. 3).
Course ID: JS-543
CPE Credits: 17
Cost: $189.99
Course Description:
This course teaches you how to manage operations and productive systems. Operations management involves the planning, coordinating, and executing of all activities that create goods or services. You will gain a working knowledge of methods for designing operational functions, systems and processes; will learn to apply strategic and operational decisions in improving processes for delivering goods and services to customers; and will learn to apply tools to achieve competitive in both manufacturing and services businesses. The course outlines new trends in the subject, such as total quality management (TQM), business process reengineering (BPR), supply chain management (SCM), and agile technology and modularity.
Course ID: CM-302
CPE Credits: 3
Cost: $39.99
Course Description:
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to: Consider the educational, financial, and emotional aspects of the "typical" boomer in their planning for a productive and stable second half of life; Understand the changes to the concept of careers and lifestyle brought about by women's entrance and ascension in the American workforce; Plan for the revised needs and priorities of boomers as they prepare for the second half of life; and Anticipate the changes to the workplace, market, and service sector instituted by the surge of older Americans in our culture.
Course ID: JS-530
CPE Credits: 9
Cost: $109.99
Course Description:
A refresher course on the basic concepts and tools of business. Every functional aspect of business is covered. Topics covered are management, organization, human resource management, purchasing, production/operations, accounting, finance, marketing, quantitative methods, legal environment, information technology, business ethics, and international business.
Course ID: JS-624
CPE Credits: 7
Cost: $69.99
Course Description:
In December 2007, when the FASB, after many years of deliberation, simultaneously issued two new standards reflected in the Codification as ASC 805, Business Combinations, and ASC 810, Consolidation. These statements, which require prospective treatment for new business combinations having fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, mandate what is referred to as the acquisition method. Moreover, the purchase method of accounting will no longer be permitted for acquisitions closed after the effective date of the new rules.
This course emphasizes both the theory and practice relating the new standards (i.e., the acquisition method). However, since preexisting accounting methods (e.g., poolings of interest and purchase methods) will continue to be used for transactions closed before the effective dates of ASC 805 and ASC 810, a comparison of old and new rules prepare practitioners for dealing with the variety of practices they will encounter at their clients or employers. It also addresses the preparation of consolidated financial statements, the appropriate treatment of the costs affection a combination, and other related issues.
Course ID: ME-103
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Capital Budgeting Analysis is a process of evaluating how we invest in capital assets; i.e. assets that provide cash flow benefits for more than one year. We will include three stages within Capital Budgeting Analysis: Decision Analysis for Knowledge Building, Option Pricing to Establish Position, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) for making the Investment Decision.
Course ID: ME-110
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Competitive Intelligence (CI) pulls together data and information from a very large and strategic view, allowing you to predict or forecast what is going to happen. This in turn allows you to effectively strategize in relation to your competitive environment. Therefore, competitive intelligence allows you to remain competitive by improving your strategic decisions and this leads to better performance against your competitors.
Course ID: JS-516
CPE Credits: 14
Cost: $139.99
Course Description:
This course is intended primarily to help business executives and information systems/computer professionals protect the computer and the data from a wide variety of threats.
Course ID: JS-570
CPE Credits: 19
Cost: $199.99
Course Description:
This course is designed for managers working for multinational companies (MNCs) as well as accountants, CFOs, controllers, treasurers, and international investors. In a modern economy, neither businesses nor individual investors can afford to be ignorant of the basic concepts of international finance. Changes in exchange rates and differences in national inflation and interest rates can affect the competitive position of businesses regardless of whether they are engaged in international operations. It is a valuable overview of financial management of MNCs and how it works. Discussed in detail are practical techniques and tools needed for currency risk management, financing, working capital management, international banking, imports and exports, and international investing and portfolio diversification, as well as for business on a global scale. Foreign currency risks are explained as they are conditioned by inflation, regional political factors, and government intervention in foreign markets.
Course ID: ME-112
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Up until now, little if any information has been available on how we can apply this framework to the Nonprofit Sector. However, as the nonprofit sector becomes more business-like, the need for value-based management grows. In order to ensure that non-profits function within this value-based framework, we can do many things, such as making the organization more entrepreneurial in how it manages social programs, recognizing and measuring social value in the delivery of services and products, using logic models for assessment and measurement, and making the connection between emotional intelligence and effective leadership.
Course ID: ME-107
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
When we look at the typical financial function within an organization, we will find a host of accounting activities: processing of payables, customer invoicing, payroll administration, financial reporting, etc. According to one survey, over 70% of all financial management functions are spent on the processing of accounting transactions. Less than 20% of financial management is spent on "real" financial management, things like performance measurement, risk management, forecasting, strategic planning, investment analysis, competitive intelligence, etc. All of these things are where real value comes from. Therefore, one of the first steps for financial functions to take when it comes to creating value is to move out of the traditional accounting box and into real financial management.
Course ID: CM-303
CPE Credits: 4
Cost: $49.99
Course Description:
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to: Explain the importance of having a corporate disaster plan in place within your organization, Outline the basics of how to develop, communicate and test a disaster plan, or also commonly referred to as a business continuity plan and Estimate damages which occurred as the result of a disaster.
Course ID: JS-542
CPE Credits: 15
Cost: $159.99
Course Description:
The course focuses on the fundamentals and essentials needed to understand how business decisions are made and they are tackled using economic theory and decision science methodology. The course teaches you how to apply economic concepts and tools to solving real-life business problems. You will learn how to use economic thinking in making business and strategic decisions, including pricing, production, and investment decisions.
Course ID: JS-534
CPE Credits: 9
Cost: $99.99
Course Description:
Good communications, oral or written, is the key to success in business life. The course is intended to assist business people in gaining understanding of the communication process, writing and organization methods, and oral aspects of communication in business. Emphasis is also placed on new technology in business communications, including e-mails, blogs, and Internet searching.
Course ID: JS-528
CPE Credits: 10
Cost: $99.99
Course Description:
The combination of growth in the commercial utilization of the Internet, the rapid changes in technology, and the complexity of management has expanded the scope of the duties of business managers. This covers all aspects of electronic commerce: the World Wide Web, Internet, Intranet, Extranet, advertising and marketing, Web 2.0, XML, etc. It helps managers implement electronic commerce in their organization. It also addresses steps to move business online, e-commerce strategies, and the concerns of business managers such as security concerns.
Course ID: CM-312
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Many people still believe that Intelligence Quotient (IQ) outweighs Emotional Quotient (EQ) in the workplace and that the success of our business, family and community is dependent on our IQ level. They couldn’t be more wrong. While assuming a smarter individual was bound to excel over someone with less intelligence may have been a good indicator of success in the past, modern research is showing over and over, that a high IQ might get you in the door, but a high EQ will get you ahead. As Accountants these new findings are also starting to affect us as more and more companies are beginning to look at how we behave in the work environment and not just our accounting capability.
In this course we will learn to understand IQ and EQ, why they both have their place and why our success depends on them. We will then review the breakdown of an IQ scale, the components of EQ and some comparison examples. You will also have an opportunity to perform a quick test of your EQ.
Course ID: ME-101
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Financial information is used by almost everyone and any manager hoping to effectively communicate and understand a business must be able to analyze financial information. This course explains the basics of accounting, links accounting to financial statements, analyzes financial statements and works through economic analysis of investments.
Course ID: JS-519
CPE Credits: 9
Cost: $99.99
Course Description:
Finance involves obtaining, using, and managing funds to achieve the company's financial objectives (e.g., maximization of shareholder value). The course is a primer that emphasizes and develops an understanding of financial concepts, tools, strategies, and major decision areas related to the financial management of the business.
Course ID: JS-520
CPE Credits: 14
Cost: $149.99
Course Description:
Course Description: Managers of nonprofit organizations generally are not skilled in financial matters. Or, managers are often preoccupied with its welfare objectives and fund raising and ignore the operations efficiency and operating cost controls. A series of appropriate questions that nonprofit financial managers must address in connection with an organization's financial condition and activity include: Do we have a profit or a loss? Do we have sufficient reserves? Are we liquid? Do we have strong internal controls? Are we operating efficiently? Are we meeting our budget? Are our programs valid? Are we competing successfully? Is our prioritizing of programs and activities reasonable? The course is an attempt to help answer theses questions.
Course ID: JS-518
CPE Credits: 15
Cost: $159.99
Course Description:
Business and financial forecasting is of extreme importance to managers at practically all levels. It is required for top managers to make long-term strategic decisions. Middle management uses sales forecasts to develop their departmental budgets. Every other plan such as a production plan, purchasing plan, manpower plan, and financial plan follows from demand forecasting. The critical element in any supply chain plan is the demand forecast. The goal of this course is to provide a working knowledge of the fundamentals of business forecasting that can be applied in the real world regardless of firm size. We walk you through basic forecasting methodology, and then practical applications. It encompasses a wide range of topics of major importance to practical managers in all functional areas, including cash flow forecasting, cost prediction, earnings forecasts, bankruptcy prediction, foreign exchange forecasting, interest rate forecasting, and technological forecasting. Stress is placed on the use of computer technology, i.e., spreadsheets and stand-alone forecasting software.
Course ID: MW-103
CPE Credits: 6
Cost: $59.99
Course Description:
Financial markets represent the lifeblood of our global economy. These mechanisms promote greater economic efficiency by transferring funds from individuals, businesses and governments with an excess of available funds to those with a shortage. Funds are transferred in the financial markets through the purchase and sale of financial instruments (such as stocks and bonds). Short-term financial instruments are available in money markets, while longer-term financial instruments are purchased and sold in the world's capital markets. Many financial markets have been in existence for hundreds of years; however the modern era has brought along many new innovations such as securitization and the derivatives market.
This course provides an introductory overview of the world's largest financial markets, including the money, bond, stock, mortgage, foreign currency and derivatives markets. This course reviews the various types of financial risk that impact these markets, as well as the economic variables that influence market activity (such as interest rates and monetary policy).
Course ID: ME-102
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Financial planning is a continuous process of directing and allocating financial resources to meet strategic goals and objectives. The output from financial planning takes the form of budgets. The most widely used form of budgets is Pro Forma or Budgeted Financial Statements. The foundation for Budgeted Financial Statements is Detail Budgets. Detail Budgets include sales forecasts, production forecasts, and other estimates in support of the Financial Plan. Collectively, all of these budgets are referred to as the Master Budget. We can also break financial planning down into planning for operations and planning for financing. Operating people focus on sales and production while financial planners are interested in how to finance the operations. Therefore, we can have an Operating Plan and a Financial Plan. However, to keep things simple and to make sure we integrate the process fully, we will consider financial planning as one single process that encompasses both operations and financing.
Course ID: JS-616
CPE Credits: 3
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
The full disclosure principle, one of major accounting principles, requires that information provided in financial statements be sufficiently complete to avoid misleading users of the reports by omitting significant facts of information. The full disclosure principle also refers to revealing information that would be useful in the decision-making processes of informed users. Full disclosure is required for the fair presentation of financial statements. This course discusses the disclosures required of companies, including those related to accounting policies, segmental information, related parties, contingencies, long-term purchase contract obligations, inflation, and derivatives. Sample annual reports addressing this requirement are illustrated.
Course ID: ME-111
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
The main reason for going public should be to grow the business through increased capitalization. In reality, many IPO’s are driven by the need to make the company liquid so investors can get a return for their risky investment. In order to go public, strong consistent growth rates should be in place to support this major increase in capital. Companies with slow growth rates should consider alternatives to going public since failure to put this major infusion of capital to immediate use can drive down valuations.
Course ID: JS-531
CPE Credits: 9
Cost: $99.99
Course Description:
A primer for aspiring small business owners and entrepreneurs. The course explores step-by-step procedures necessary to set up and manage a small business. Topics include the development of the business plan, market entry strategies, organization and management, financing, Internet marketing, and software, and critical factors for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Course ID: JS-527
CPE Credits: 22
Cost: $249.99
Course Description:
The course covers information systems in all phases of business and in all functional areas to analyze and solve business problems in the "real world." The practical and efficient use of computer technology, both software and hardware, are highlighted. All types of business applications are covered. The importance of data bases, networking, telecommunications, and wireless mobile technology are presented. Popular accounting, tax, finance, management, manufacturing, and marketing software are explained for easy use. Software for decision support systems (DSS), Executive Information Systems (EIS), and Expert Systems (ES) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as financial modeling, budgeting, strategic planning and control, forecasting, data analysis, inventory planning, and optimization software are discussed.
Course ID: JS-533
CPE Credits: 12
Cost: $139.99
Course Description:
The major purpose of Legal Environments of Business is to provide you with a concise summary of the major legal principles affecting businesspeople and business transactions. It provides a quick, yet comprehensive, review of this vital and wide-ranging area of the law. You will be able to analyze business decisions from a legal responsibility perspective.
Course ID: JS-516
CPE Credits: 10
Cost: $99.99
Course Description:
Cash is the lifeblood of a business. Sound cash management is the key to the survival of any business. You can go broke even while making a profit. Profit is measured on an accrual basis in accounting. This course alerts you to the difference between profit and cash flow and teaches you the tools and techniques that allow you to effectively increase and manage your cash flow.
Course ID: ME-104
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Cash is the most liquid of assets and it represents the lifeblood for growth and investment. In order to generate cash, we must efficiently and effectively manage the activities that provide cash. These activities include billing customers as quickly as possible, disbursing payments only when they come due, collecting cash on overdue accounts, and investing idle cash. Therefore, managing cash flow involves several objectives.
Course ID: JS-535
CPE Credits: 10
Cost: $199.99
Course Description:
This course teaches you the art and science of managing and accomplishing organizational goals and improving the way organizations are managed. Management refers to the process of coordinating and integrating work activities so that they are completed efficiently and effectively with and through other people. Managers of today need to be equipped with all the tools and concepts necessary to perform managerial activities in order to be globally competitive. Topics include functions of managers, strategies, planning, decision making, organization, leadership, motivation, control, total quality management (TQM), the role of information technology (IT), international business, management information systems (MIS), and analysis of problems central to management.
Course ID: JS-538
CPE Credits: 12
Cost: $129.99
Course Description:
This course teaches you key components of marketing strategy and tactics including: identification, analysis and selection of target markets; development of product/service lines; pricing; distribution systems; advertising and promotions; service marketing; and international marketing. Major forces impacting marketing strategy, such as consumer behavior, completion, and regulating forces, are discussed. Also covered are marketing information systems, search-related marketing, interactive marketing and E-commerce, and multichannel marketing.
Course ID: ME-106.2
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Mergers and acquisitions represent the ultimate in change for a business. No other event is more difficult, challenging, or chaotic as a merger and acquisition. It is imperative that everyone involved in the process has a clear understanding of how the process works. Hopefully this short course will provide you with a better appreciation of what is involved. You might be asking yourself, why do I need to learn the merger and acquisition (M & A) process? Well for starters, mergers and acquisitions are now a normal way of life within the business world. In today's global, competitive environment, mergers are sometimes the only means for long-term survival. In other cases, such as Cisco Systems, mergers are a strategic component for generating long-term growth. Additionally, many entrepreneurs no longer build companies for the long-term; they build companies for the short-term, hoping to sell the company for huge profits. In her book The Art of Merger and Acquisition Integration, Alexandra Reed Lajoux puts it best: Virtually every major company in the United States today has experienced a major acquisition at some point in history. And at any given time, thousands of these companies are adjusting to post-merger reality. For example, so far in the decade of the 1990's (through June 1997), 96,020 companies have come under new ownership worldwide in deals worth a total of $ 3.9 trillion - and that's just counting acquisitions valued at $ 5 million and over. Add to this the many smaller companies and nonprofit and governmental entities that experience mergers every year, and the M & A universe becomes large indeed.
Course ID: ME-106.1
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Mergers and acquisitions represent the ultimate in change for a business. No other event is more difficult, challenging, or chaotic as a merger and acquisition. It is imperative that everyone involved in the process has a clear understanding of how the process works. Hopefully this short course will provide you with a better appreciation of what is involved.
Course ID: JS-517
CPE Credits: 12
Cost: $119.99
Course Description:
The course is intended for business professionals engaged in budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, profit planning, and control. A budget is the formal expression of plans, goals, and objectives of management that covers all aspects of operations for a designated time period. The budget is a tool providing targets and direction. Budgets provide control over the immediate environment, help to master the financial aspects of the job and department, and solve problems before they occur. Budgets focus on the importance of evaluating alternative actions before decisions are actually implemented. This course explains what budgets are, how they work, how to prepare and present them, and how to analyze budget figures and results. The new development and use of budgets at various managerial levels within a business are discussed. Active financial planning software that combine budgeting, forecasting analytics, business intelligence, and collaboration.
Course ID: JS-537
CPE Credits: 11
Cost: $119.99
Course Description:
This course is especially designed to teach you the essential knowledge of supervision and the key role that the supervisor plays in today's organizations. In most organizations it is recognized that the supervisory job is demanding and exacting. Success or failure of the entire organization is often conditioned by the competency at the supervisory level. This course attempts to present and discuss those things that are essential to being a successful supervisor. It is designed to meet the special needs of a person aspiring to a supervisory job, and the practicing supervisor. The course is applicable to all types of supervisory jobs whether in manufacturing, service, or not-for-profit organizations. For the potential supervisor the course affords a concise but complete presentation and acquaintance with the many problems that will be confronted. For the experienced supervisor the material provides an overall review, a broadening of supervisory horizons, and a kindling of new and fresh thinking in the supervisory area.
Course ID: JS-522
CPE Credits: 25
Cost: $269.99
Course Description:
A comprehensive course on personal finance. What is more important to the "average person"' than personal financial planning and money management? This course teaches you all the major areas in personal financial planning—planning your personal finances, managing your personal finances, making your purchase decisions, insuring your resources, investing tour financial resources, and controlling your financial future. Topics covered include time value calculations, budgeting, career planning, banking, Insurance, home buying, consumer credits and money management, investment planning, retirement planning, and estate planning.
Course ID: ME-113
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
Everything everyone does within an organization is part of a process. So invariably if you want to improve what the organization does, then you have to focus on improving the process. By putting your emphasis on the process, you avoid the typical trap that so many business leaders seem to fall prey to – looking to cut costs, they focus on trimming payrolls or pushing people to do more with less. This short-sided approach may get a brief bump in performance. However, in the long-run you end up increasing costs, reducing value to the customer, and making it harder for the company to compete.
Course ID: JS-572
CPE Credits: 13
Cost: $149.99
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide you with a deep understanding of the applications and importance of Project Management. You will learn how to assess a project with respect to time, costs, and resources in order to effectively and efficiently reach your goals. You will become familiar with the five processes involved in Project management – Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing on time and within budget-- Project Integration, Project Scope, Project Time, Project Cost, Project Quality, Project Human Resources, Project Communications, Project Risk Management, and Project Procurement – that are essential to being an expert Project Manager. This course follows for the most part the framework within the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The material, however, places a financial focus on projects as a way to accomplish desired changes in the enterprise in a coordinated and predictable way for favorable outcomes. Topics covered include economic feasibility study, life-cycle costing, target costing, and earned value analysis. Through better project management, you can reduce or eliminate failed projects and reduce the costs associated with successful ones, increasing enterprise effectiveness in providing the maximum value to shareholders.
Course ID: JS-544
CPE Credits: 6
Cost: $69.99
Course Description:
A refresher course covering basic concepts and tools of accounting, finance, and math that real estate professionals as well as real estate investors need to be familiar with. Topics covered are balance sheet, income statement, basic accounting concepts, real estate algebra, finance math, and more.
Course ID: JS-545
CPE Credits: 10
Cost: $119.99
Course Description:
This course covers both financing and investing in real estate. The first section deals with two major aspects of real estate financing: (1) financial instruments and (2) the means of financing. It examines the financial side of the lending process. The second section deals with investing in real estate• Topics include: the advantages and pitfalls of real estate investing, how to value an income-producing property, how to use leverage and increase return, and buying a home.
Course ID: JS-539
CPE Credits: 14
Cost: $159.99
Course Description:
Retailing, the business of selling consumer goods to final consumers, is constantly changing. Retailers are particularly affected by changes in the consumer population; in the economic, social, technological, and political environment; and in competitive conditions. This course teaches you the main requirements of effective retail management: personal qualifications of management; an adequate financial structure; necessary physical facilities; effective policies and procedures; and competence, loyalty, and productiveness of personnel. Also discussed are online retailing (e-tailing) strategy, improving Internet presence, and future changes in retailing.
Course ID: JS-540
CPE Credits: 12
Cost: $139.99
Course Description:
This course is an overview of the role of the sales manager, both at headquarters and in the field, in managing salespeople, personal selling, resources, and functions of marketing. The problems of organizing, forecasting, planning, communicating, evaluating, and controlling sales are analyzed. A variety of techniques and pertinent concepts of behavioral science are applied to the management of the sales effort and sales force. Key trends affecting sales organizations and sales managers today are highlighted.
Course ID: CM-311
CPE Credits: 2
Cost: $29.99
Course Description:
The complexities of financial regulations and accounting pronouncements and the impact of global competition present businesses and executives with a demanding environment. Along with the necessary technical financial experience that a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) must possess, many other skills and attributes are required to address the challenges of the role. This course will discuss many key skills and attributes that contribute to the success of CFOs.
Course ID: MW-104
CPE Credits: 5
Cost: $49.99
Course Description:
In technical terms, social media refers to a variety of Web-based applications (such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al) that facilitate (1) communication and collaboration amongst users of the Internet and (2) the creation of "user-generated content" in the form of words, pictures, audios and videos. However social media represents much more than this simple definition; social media signifies nothing less than a revolution in the ways that people communicate, consume media and conduct business. Many businesses are rethinking entire marketing strategies in order to focus on this new world known as "Web 2.0". Social media tools such as social networks, blogs and podcasts are now commonly used to market products and services to consumers.
This course provides an overview of social media and its impact on the marketing process. This overview includes descriptions of the various forms of social media and profiles of the most popular social media websites. This course also introduces the concept of social media marketing and discusses how you can use social media to market your business, promote your brand and influence your potential customers. Finally, this course provides a step-by-step guide for CPA's and other professionals to utilize when launching a social media marketing campaign.
Course ID: JS-902
CPE Credits: 13
Cost: $149.99
Course Description:
Strategic Management introduces, explains, and analyzes the activities needed to develop, select, implement, and evaluate a firm's competitive strategy. This course focuses on both the content of a firm's strategy and the process by which this strategy is developed and executed. This course is designed to illustrate development, formulation, implementation, and evaluation of business strategy. Emphasis is placed on the need for awareness of, and accommodation to, changes in an organization's internal and external environments. Generic types of business strategies and techniques for analyzing strategies are also covered.
Course ID: JS-513
CPE Credits: 25
Cost: $259.99
Course Description:
This comprehensive course gives you every sales and financial forecasting formula and modeling techniques you need to analyze your operation both as a whole and by segment. You'll be provided with proven techniques that help you identify and fix problem areas, analysis techniques that help you evaluate proposals for profit potential, proven methods that improve the accuracy of your short- and long-term forecasting, analysis tools that help you better manage working capital, cash, and accounts receivable, plus much more. You also receive dozens of worked-out models and modeling techniques that simplify your most difficult business decisions, and are easy to adapt to any computer spreadsheet program. This course supplies company accountants, treasurers, CFOs with all the forecasting techniques needed to financially analyze a business as a whole or a segment. Includes analysis techniques, methods for improving forecasting accuracy, analysis tools for managing capital, and more.
Course ID: JS-552
CPE Credits: 18
Cost: $219.99
Course Description:
The Complete Business Math for Accountants provides accountants, managers, and business entrepreneurs with the information, analyses, and insights necessary to analyze and calculate the consequences of a wide range of business financial strategies and problems. The ability to select the right operational technique is vital if the business is to survive, profit, and grow in today's uncertain economic environment. The owner of a small business must be able to make the right financial decision based on sound mathematical reasoning in order to run the business efficiently. They must understand the problem, and then apply math skills to solve it. This course contains hundreds of filled-in examples, illustrations, practical applications, measures, procedures, rules of thumb, statistical data, exhibits, tables, graphs, and diagrams. They are presented to aid in the comprehension and successful solution of a particular problem. The reader will also learn when and how to use the appropriate computational method, why it is used, when computer techniques such as spreadsheets should be used, and how to read and analyze the computer printout.
Course ID: JS-525
CPE Credits: 24
Cost: $249.99
Course Description:
This course is a one-stop problem-solver for today's busy executive. It is a sequel to The Pocket MBA: Concepts and Strategies. The course is a working guide to help you quickly pinpoint in the complex world of business.
* What to look for
* What to do
* What to watch out for
* How to do it
You'll find ratios, formulas, guidelines, and rules of thumb to help analyze and evaluate any business-related problem. Throughout, you'll find this course practical, quick, and useful. Part I takes you through accounting principles and guidelines for evaluating a company's financial health. You will have an increased understanding of various financial statements and their implications. You will be exposed to Corporate Responsibility Law, better known as the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act. Part II takes a look at financial analysis tools, financial metrics, and financing methods for decision making. Part III takes you through the seemingly complex world of quantitative analysis. You'll use statistics for forecasting and validity testing. Decision theories include linear programming, learning curve theory, and queuing models; these are presented concisely and comprehensively to help you use such sophisticated techniques with relative ease. And, you'll learn how computer applications facilitate the many complex procedures. This course has been designed in question-and-answer format in order to address the pertinent issues that come up during the course of business.
Course ID: JS-524
CPE Credits: 20
Cost: $219.99
Course Description:
This course is designed to train people interested in financing services to develop the knowledge and techniques required to approve and package a variety of loans and financing, such as SBA loans and venture capital financing. Understanding the new money markets and finding available sources of capital for investment, expansion, real estate development, and personal investment have challenged the majority of businesses. The course focuses on the basic principles, concepts, terminology and instruments used to qualify a client, package a loan, and delineate the various services available in the financial community. Useful Internet resources are provided wherever applicable.
Course ID: JS-536
CPE Credits: 12
Cost: $129.99
Course Description:
This course is an examination of human relations theory and individuals, group, and organizational performance in relation to organizational structure in contemporary business and public agencies. It is an interdisciplinary field, drawing from on concepts from a variety of subject areas. Covered are personality and attitudes, work motivation, interpersonal and group processes, organizational design and development, and decision making.
Course ID: JS-541
CPE Credits: 12
Cost: $129.99
Course Description:
Understanding the economy and coping with the economic environment is critical in today's business performance, which is a major concern for managers and investors. The course will address macro-economic factors that may affect the performance of the business. Macro-economic factors include business cycles, interest rates, economic policy, inflation, unemployment, housing starts, money supply, and foreign exchange rates. For example, how the Fed's monetary policy affects corporate earnings is stressed. A variety of economic statistics and indicators are also explained in depth.
Course ID: JS-515
CPE Credits: 6
Cost: $69.99
Course Description:
This course covers valuations ranging from businesses, bonds, preferred stock and common stock to real estate. Business valuation is essentially a present value concept that involves estimating future cash flows of a business and discounting them at a required rate of return. The value of a bond is essentially the present value of all future interest and principal payments. Stock price may be expressed as a function of the expected future dividends and a rate of return required by investors. The Gordon's valuation model reflects this process. Real estate valuation involved several rule-of-thumb valuation methods.
