Accounts Payable Best Practices
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Accounts Payable Best Practices (15 hours)
Acting as an Executor (20 hours)
Avoiding Probate (10 hours)
Buying a Business (15 hours)
Choice of Entity (10 hours)
Dealing With Problem Employees (20 hours)
Employer's Legal Handbook (20 hours)
Executive Compensation (15 hours)
Mergers & Acquisitions (15 hours)
Optimizing Back Office Operations (15 hours) **NEW**
Preventing and Detecting Employee Theft and Embezzlement (15 hours) **NEW**
Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business (10 hours)
Resolving Legal Disputes (15 hours)
Treasury Management (20 hours) **NEW**
When Growth Stalls (15 hours)
Writing Effective Business Plans (10 hours)
Accounts Payable Best Practices
| This handy resource provides documented strategies and tactics for accounts payable used by several highly admired companies. It provides businesses with a strong sense of where their processes stand against industry leaders and how they can take their services and organizational procedures to state of the art levels. Because firms aren't always in a position to employ best practices, the text presents "Almost Best Practices," as well as "Worst Practices," which often leave a firm open to criticism and loss. Also includes innovative T&E techniques, the use of P-cards, 1099 and sales and use tax reporting, and cash management initiatives. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
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Course Number: B726 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
| Study with a Friend--Extra tests are only $30 | |
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Acting as an Executor
| This course is a complete overview of the job associated with acting as an executor. Covers: the first steps to take; claiming life insurance, Social Security and other benefits; making sense of a will; what to do if there is no will; how to determine whether or not probate is necessary; taxes; probate court proceedings; handling trusts; caring for children and their property; working with lawyers and appraisers; and more. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
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Course Number: B518 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $100.00. | |
| Study with a Friend--Extra tests are only $40 | |
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Avoiding Probate
| Probate can drag on for years, and the costs -- including lawyer’s fees, appraisal fees, court fees -- can easily eat up thousands of dollars. Luckily, there are simple and effective strategies to avoid probate. You’ll learn how to: set up payable-on-death bank accounts; name a beneficiary for retirement accounts; register assets in transfer-on-death forms; hold property in joint ownership; take advantage of special procedures for small estates; create a living trust; give away property now; and more. Includes state-by-state charts to show which techniques will work in your state. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
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Course Number: B403 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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| This course will show you how to find the right business, analyze the seller’s numbers, make sense of the tax issues, negotiate a payment plan, prepare and sign a sales agreement, close the deal, protect yourself from existing liabilities, prevent the seller from competing against you and work with lawyers, accountants and brokers. It also provides a CD that helps you create more than two dozen crucial legal documents. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
Course Number: B824 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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This course covers all aspects of the choice of entity decision, including personal liability concerns, money issues, concerns of doing business out-of-state, converting a partnership or a sole proprietorship to another entity, converting an LLC to another entity, converting, dissolving or selling a corporation, and much more. The text also provides conversion and formation scenarios that provide a real-world look at all the options available. It is better to get all the facts and make an informed decision up-front than expend an excess of time and effort cleaning up after a mistaken choice later. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: B772 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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Dealing With Problem Employees
| No matter what problems you’re having with your employees, this course will offer proven techniques for creating a trouble-free workplace. Will show you how to: recognize who is and isn’t a problem; help problem employees get back on track; investigate problems and complaints; conduct performance evaluations; apply progressive discipline; suspend employees; fire employees; handle severances and references; institute effective policies and procedures; and more. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: B261 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $100.00. | |
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| This course is absolutely essential for anyone with employees. Covers hiring, firing, personnel policies, employee benefits, discrimination, ADA requirements, workers' compensation, workplace health & safety, wage & hour requirements, payroll taxes and independent contractors. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
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Number: B509 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $100.00. | |
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| This course contains a comprehensive coverage of the best U.S. compensation practices with numerous practical examples. The book also includes helpful discussions of the latest SEC rules that will be invaluable for directors who are currently members of compensation committees. In addition, it provides the compensation committee of the board of directors for both profit and nonprofit organizations with a thorough reference to executive compensation best practices. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
Course Number: B831 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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| In today's complex world of mergers and acquisitions, executives need a reliable and easy-to-use guide to help them maximize the financial and operational value of the deal for their company by minimizing costs and avoiding potentially fatal mistakes. This course provides a thorough primer and overview of the common features of strategic transactions. It offers a useful balance of detailed and user-friendly coverage, complete with an appendix of real-world checklists, forms, and sample reports and presentations. It is a must-have tool for CEOs, CFOs, finance executives, and other business leaders involved in strategic transactions. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam and grading service. |  |
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Course Number: B351 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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Optimizing Back Office Operations
| One of the key reasons for a company's failing to meet its profitability expectations lies in its back office. This course outlines the best practices and proactive strategies you can use to make the most of your financial supply chain. It will show you how to achieve sustainable profitability in the accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, and treasury functions. You'll learn how to optimize accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, and treasury operations. Examples and case studies show how cost optimization in the core back office operations is the right approach to maximizing profitability and enterprise value. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
Course Number: B1054 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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Preventing and Detecting Employee Theft and Embezzlement
| From implementing prudent hiring policies and practices through collecting receipts, making deposits, writing checks, paying employees, and evaluating the adequacy of insurance coverage, this course covers the major financial areas commonly found in most small businesses. Also takes a closer look at what you must do in the hiring process, how to know and monitor your existing employees, the truth about contacting past employers, and more. Each chapter contains a checklist so you can start protecting your business right away. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
Course Number: B1072 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
| Study with a Friend--Extra tests are only $30 | |
Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business
| Identity theft has been identified by the FBI as the top crime of the twenty-first century. Recent studies indicate that at least fifty percent or more of identity thefts are committed inside the workplace by a few dishonest employees. This course presents a comprehensive, four-factor model for implementing an effective information security plan and provides step-by-step guidance on employee selection and training. Using techniques culled from industrial and organizational psychology, the management sciences, and the field of criminal justice, the methods covered in this course are inexpensive, comprehensive, and applicable to all businesses. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
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Course Number: B624 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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This course will help you navigate your way through varying legal disputes. Whether you’re fighting with a neighbor about who should pay for a fence, pursuing a charge of discrimination at work, or chasing a $5000 loan, this book can help you decide what steps to take to resolve disputes. It is written in easy-to-read language with dozens of real-life examples. It also provides important information about mediation, arbitration, small claims court, and civil court procedures, and includes a chapter on working with a lawyer, with tips on how you can save time and money. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: B731 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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| This course describes all aspects of the treasury function including cash forecasting, cash concentration, working capital management, debt management, equity management, investment management, foreign exchange risk management, clearing and settlement systems, treasury systems, and more. It also covers the general categories of cash management, financing, risk management, and treasury systems. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
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Number: B1058 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $100.00. | |
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This course presents seven characteristics that commonly correlate with stalled growth and what to do about them. Some are external forces to which countless companies have fallen victim: economic upheavals, changing industry dynamics, and increased competition. More surprising are four subtle and highly destructive internal factors that conspire to keep companies down: lack of consensus among the management team, loss of nerve, loss of focus, and marketing inconsistency. This course is a practical, hands-on guide for executives, managers, and entrepreneurs who are struggling with stalled growth as well as for those who hope to prevent it. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: B954 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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Writing Effective Business Plans
This course will help you put together a winning, successful business plan. It will lead you carefully through every aspect involved in planning and development—illustrating each step with a realistic sample that shows you exactly what you’ll need. You’ll get the nuts-and-bolts of formatting and design--techniques on how to tailor your plan to the various people and institutions who will review it, new information on funding and financing methods, and special provisions for restructuring and bankruptcy. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: B765 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
| Study with a Friend--Extra tests are only $20 | |