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Accounting and Finance for Small Business (20 hours)
Accounts Payable Best Practices (15 hours)
Acting as an Executor (20 hours) **New Edition**
Avoiding Probate (10 hours)
Billing and Collections Best Practices (15 hours)
Buying a Business (15 hours) **NEW**
Choice of Entity (10 hours) **NEW**
Controller’s Guide (20 hours)
Dealing With Problem Employees (20 hours) **New Edition**
Employer's Legal Handbook (20 hours)
Fraud Detection and Prevention (20 hours)
Health Insurance Solutions (15 hours)
Inventory Best Practices (15 hours)
Mergers & Acquisitions (15 hours)
Payroll Best Practices (15 hours)
Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business (10 hours)
Private Firm Valuation (15 hours)
Real Estate Investment Trusts (15 hours)
Resolving Legal Disputes (15 hours) **NEW**
Writing Effective Business Plans (10 hours) **NEW**

Accounting and Finance for Small Business

This course will help you navigate through all of the key accounting and financial information required to operate a small business.  It provides detailed information and step-by-step procedures on budgeting for operations, tracking cash flows, understanding performance measurement systems, investing in long-term assets and capital budgeting, determining insurance requirements and compiling tax liabilities.  In addition, it includes effective operational analysis tools, simple operational budgeting techniques for expectations and measurement, numerous forms, checklists, and other tools for analyzing key information, as well as real-world examples showing practical applications.  Course level:  Basic.  Prerequisites: None.  Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service.

Course Number: B143 CPE Credit: 20 hours Price: $119.00
If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $100.00.
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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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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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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.

Course Number: B403 CPE Credit: 10 hours Price: $69.00
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Billing and Collections Best Practices

This course shows you how to implement more than 200 best practices related to every phase of a company’s billing and collections cycle, including creating credit systems, granting credit, creating and delivering invoices, applying cash receipts, managing the collections department, outsourcing collections work, and using a variety of collection techniques. The text itemizes the exact work plans needed to implement each best practice, as well as the common pitfalls that may be encountered. Also includes a comprehensive list of billing and collections measurements that allow you to calculate your company’s progress along the way. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service.

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Buying a Business

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 CPE Credit: 15 hours Price: $99.00
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Choice of Entity

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.

Course Number: B772 CPE Credit: 10 hours Price: $69.00
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Controller’s Guide

Provides a complete overview of the functions and responsibilities of the controller in a corporation. Helps new controllers develop a firm foundation in the concepts of managing the accounting department, locating GAAP information, analyzing and knowing what to do with key accounting information, and setting up control systems that reduce a company’s risk of loss. Will also show you how to analyze information through the use of ratio and trend analysis, which can pinpoint control problems resolvable through control systems changes. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service.

Course Number: B552 CPE Credit: 20 hours Price: $119.00
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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.

Course Number: B261 CPE Credit: 20 hours Price: $119.00
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Employer's Legal Handbook

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.

Course Number: B509 CPE Credit: 20 hours Price: $119.00
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Fraud Detection and Prevention

Offers techniques and strategies for fraud detection and prevention. The text was written by an accountant with over 30 years of proactive fraud-specific auditing experience. Provides rare expertise on this increasingly costly problem. As businesses lose over $100 billion a year to fraud, the need to be more proactive in detecting fraud is increasingly obvious. This course describes different types of fraud and provides proven methods of detection. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service.

Course Number: B141 CPE Credit: 20 hours Price: $119.00
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Health Insurance Solutions

This course describes how you can profit from recent changes in the law and in the healthcare industry that have put good quality, affordable health care within the reach of millions of Americans. It tells you the benefits of taking your spouse and children off your employer health plan, how to use the new Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) to get a double tax break, how to cut prescription drug costs, how to get health insurance between jobs, and how to get affordable health care for yourself or your parents in retirement. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service.

Course Number: B361 CPE Credit: 15 hours Price: $99.00
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Inventory Best Practices

By implementing best practices, a company can greatly improve its efficiency. This course covers nearly 200 best practices from today’s leading companies and addresses every phase of inventory activities including purchase, receipt, storage, picking and shipment. The best practices for special functions related to inventory are presented in quickly accessible sections on production, transaction processing, planning, warehouse layout, cost accounting, and bills of material. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service.

Course Number: B556 CPE Credit: 15 hours Price: $99.00
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Mergers & Acquisitions

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.

Course Number: B351 CPE Credit: 15 hours Price: $99.00
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Payroll Best Practices

Features more than 120 best practices related to every phase of a company's payroll activities, including tracking employee time, recording deductions, paying employees, calculating commissions, outsourcing, control systems, and more. Controllers, payroll managers, and CFOs will discover the exact work plans needed to implement each best practice in their organization and the pitfalls likely to be encountered and avoided along the way. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam and grading service.

Course Number: B355 CPE Credit: 15 hours Price: $99.00
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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.

Course Number: B624 CPE Credit: 10 hours Price: $69.00
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Private Firm Valuation

Provides a complete explanation of the issues that determine private firm value. This course combines recent academic research and practical real-world experience to provide a better understanding of the multitude of factors that determine private firm value. It covers topics including how firms create value and how to measure it, valuing control, determining the size of the marketability discount, creating transparency and the implications for value, determining transaction value, and the valuation implications of FASB 141 (purchase price accounting) and 142 (goodwill impairment). Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam and grading service.

Course Number: B353 CPE Credit: 15 hours Price: $99.00
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Real Estate Investment Trusts

This course provides an introduction to the benefits and performance characteristics of REITs and examines the role they play in a well-diversified investment portfolio. Divided into three comprehensive parts, it covers a wide variety of issues, including: the legal and financial history of REITs; how REITs behave as an investment class and how they are best integrated into an investor's portfolio; the fundamental economic issues that affect real estate and how they impact REITs; specific methods for analyzing REITs as an investment; and different types of REITs. Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, the text provides a valuable road map to an investment that can help stabilize and grow your portfolio for years to come.  Course level: Basic.  Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service.

Course Number: B711 CPE Credit: 15 hours Price: $99.00
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Resolving Legal Disputes

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.

Course Number: B731 CPE Credit: 15 hours Price: $99.00
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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.

Course Number: B765 CPE Credit: 10 hours Price: $69.00
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