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International Finance
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Perhaps you have wondered how one can successfully navigate the maze of options and opportunities offered by the international financial markets. Are there ways to maximize profits while effectively minimizing risk when it comes to dealing on the global level? This course will demonstrate why you would want to transform your purely domestic firm into a multinational corporation; how you decide which financial products and instruments will allow you to manage your cash flows from international business operations; and finally the important steps to take toward managing foreign exchange risk and country risk. ...
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Introduction to Internal Auditing
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Surprises can be very costly to a company. Developing in-house strategies to ensure that internal processes are being followed and quality expectations are being met is a powerful tool for avoiding surprises. This course Introduction to Internal Auditing will introduce you to internal auditing strategies and techniques that help accomplish this end. Specifically you will learn how to plan and report an internal audit and perform key quality control audit techniques. ...
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The Basics of Budgeting
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Running a department without understanding the budget process is like driving a car without knowing how to steer. Every manager needs a basic understanding of how to plan use and monitor adherence to a budget. Addressing the needs of your own budget process will help you support the financial processes and goals of your organization as a whole. ...
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Raising Capital and Financing Decisions
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The goal of every financial manager is to maximize firm value and shareholder wealth. How does a manager reach this objective? To be successful financial managers must be aware of the financing options available to them and the procedures they must follow to begin financing. Most important managers must be able to choose the best financing mix for their company. ...
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Managerial Decisions and Capital Budgeting
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Business decisions involve choosing between alternative courses of action and developing formal plans for future action. This course explains several methods of analysis that can help business managers to choose alternatives that offer the highest rate of return on investment or the greatest reduction in costs. In this course topics such as capital budgeting and managerial decisions provide you with the concepts procedures and analytical skills you need to make informed decisions in todays complex business environment. ...
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Management of Cash Flows
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Can a profitable company with a positive net worth run short of cash? Without sound cash management it certainly can. Every organization large and small must manage the generation and expenditure of cash to ensure that bills can be paid on time. ...
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TestPrep Final Exam: Accounting 102
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Generally taken near the end of a program Final Exam: Accounting 102 enables the learner to test their knowledge in a testing environment. ...
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TestPrep Final Exam: Advanced Business Finance
by Skillsoft - Business
Generally taken near the end of a program Final Exam: Advanced Business Finance enables the learner to test their knowledge in a testing environment. ...
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TestPrep Final Exam: Accounting 101
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Generally taken near the end of a program Final Exam: Accounting 101 enables the learner to test their knowledge in a testing environment. ...
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Financial Statements
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Organizations use financial statements to report their performance and their financial condition to investors and lenders. Managers--including non-financial managers--can use these statements to understand how the organization is doing: Are any changes needed? Can the organization improve? How quickly is the organization growing in comparison with its competitors? Are there any financial danger signs? This course provides a foundation for reading the three key financial statements prepared by most corporations--the balance sheet (or statement of financial condition) the income statement (or earnings statement or profit and loss statement) and the statement of cash flows. The course also explores how to use basic ratios to analyze these financial statements. ...
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The Principles of Financial Management
by Skillsoft - Business
Financial management is a key tool in controlling and directing the resources of any business organization. Managers--not only financial professionals but also managers whose responsibilities are largely non-financial--can use this tool to generate and analyze the financial information that is essential to decision making in business. Understanding the principles of financial management helps all managers from line supervisors to senior executives to use this tool more effectively to support the organizations goals. ...
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Components of Financial Statements
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This course presents an overview of the relationship between business management decisions and financial statements introducing the learner to critical concepts and terminology that are necessary for conducting an applied interpretation of financial statements. ...
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Accounting Systems and Closing Activities
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Some businesses carry out hundreds of transactions in a single day. You can imagine the accounting data at the end of the day or the end of the month. Ultimately these transactions can be categorized into a few different types. Organizing the transactions through special journals actually reduces the work and allows you to be more efficient in your accounting activities at the end of every period. Efficient accounting activities are an important aspect to a successful and profitable business. This practical course shows you how to maintain an accounting system and perform closing activities in three lessons "Special Journals" "Subsidiary Ledgers" and "Closing Activities." ...
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Creating and Analyzing an Operating Budget
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Working without a well thought-out operating budget can be compared to playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Although a company might know the direction in which it wants or needs to go without a budget it must simply feel around in the dark and hope it comes close to its target. Unfortunately if a business uses this approach it will eventually fall victim to cash flow problems that could result in its downfall. ...
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Effective Budget Management
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A priority of effective budget management is to take steps to ensure that businesses create a manageable and controllable budget and to prevent cash crunch situations from developing. To effectively manage your budget you need to understand the elements of the various budgets and understand the importance of ongoing monitoring and analysis of their individual components. ...
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Cost Accounting Decisions
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Cost accounting is an activity that provides financial and nonfinancial information to business managers and other internal decision makers of an organization. This course examines how cost accounting information is gathered and how it is used by business professionals to make effective decisions. Topics such as Cost-volume-profit (CVP) Analysis Standard Costing and Variance Analysis and Activity-based Costing (ABC) will provide you with the concepts procedures and analytical skills youll need to make cost accounting decisions in todays complex business environment. ...
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Introduction to Advanced Finance
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Dont be intimidated by corporate finance and choosing appropriate investment projects. If you are a corporate manager faced with choosing between different investment projects this course will be helpful. You will review Time Value of Money concepts and learn how to choose corporate projects using accounting models and cash flow models. ...
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Financial Risk Management
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Do you like to take risks or do you prefer to avoid them? Do you only take a risk if you know you will be compensated for it in the end? Everyone is exposed to risk at some time--it is unavoidable. Having the proper tools to deal with risk can save you money and help you avoid financial hardship. This course familiarizes you with the strategies and products used to manage corporate risk. You will gain useful experience in risk management through a series of exercises and examples aimed at teaching various options that significantly reduce exposure to risk. ...
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Introduction to External Auditing
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Do you know what external auditing is and why its important? Do you know that external auditors are subject to some of the most stringent legal responsibilities of any profession? This course will introduce you to the terminology concepts strategies and techniques to promote effective and efficient auditing practices. You will also learn some of the major legal responsibilities that external auditors face. In addition you will learn how the auditing profession has been altered by the use of computers and how computers are a tool that increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the audit process. ...
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Introduction to Auditing
by Skillsoft - Business
Have you noticed that auditing is becoming an increasingly important business function? First and foremost auditing is a way in which clients and businesses in a global marketplace are able to ensure quality consistency efficiency and reliable financial reports. This course will familiarize you with the basic terminologies concepts and approaches to performing a quality audit. You will develop your knowledge of what audits are how they are conducted how they are recorded and how they are followed up. In addition you will examine the basics of both internal and external audits and how they foster effective business processes. ...
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Managing for Asset Control
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Every company must take actions to safeguard control and manage the assets it owns. As a business manager its your responsibility to set up policies and procedures to safeguard your companys assets--especially cash assets. In this course you will learn about cash transactions inventory control and accounts receivable management. These lessons will provide you with the knowledge and skills you require to apply internal control principles and to effectively manage assets. ...
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Master Budgets
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Will you be able to expand? Will you be able to afford that new piece of equipment? What kind of profit can be expected if you do? To answer these questions about your business will not require a fortune teller. It will require the creation of a master budget. No matter the size of your company if you are to succeed and continue to grow you must carefully plan for your companys future. Master budgets can be used to predict the future success of your company and serve as a overall plan to indicate in which direction your company should grow. ...
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Managing Working Capital
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Working capital management influences both a firms risks and its expected returns. As such it is an important determinant of firm value. Investment and financing decisions are interconnected thus they cannot be made independently. Financial planning will make you think systematically about the relationships among your goals for growth investment and financing. After completing this course you will be aware of the risk-return tradeoffs that are implied in financial forecasting know the process of financial planning the importance of managing cash inflows and outflows how to finance short-term assets and make the right decisions on financing and investment for your firm. ...
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The Ins and Outs of Capital Budgeting
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Capital budgeting is an essential part of every companys financial management. It involves examining investment assets and deciding whether or not those assets will achieve the companys desired returns over an extended period of time. To effectively manage your companys finances you must evaluate a number of factors in making investment decisions. ...
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Analyzing Cash Flow Statements
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Have you ever had to make a really tough business decision? They can be hard to make especially since a bad decision can ruin a company. Fortunately there is a way to make a more informed and better business decision; by analyzing your companys financial statements. They contain information that can help you improve your companys efficiency and overall effectiveness. Cash flow statement analysis focuses on determining your companys ability in the following four areas: (1) ability to meet short-term obligations and to efficiently generate revenue (2) ability to generate future revenues and meet long-term obligations (3) ability to provide financial rewards and attract and retain financing and (4) ability to generate positive market expectations. ...
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Accounting for Partnerships
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Partnerships are voluntary organizations between two or more people that combine different resources in a business venture. These resources can be money expertise personal connections or experience. Accounting procedures are established to ensure that each partner gets his/her share of the business income or loss. This course explores the accounting methods that pertain to partnerships and the division of its assets. ...
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Accrual Accounting Procedures
by Skillsoft - Business
Its the end of the fiscal year and all transactions must be accounted for. But there are some transactions that arent complete such as paying interest or delivering services. Do you record them or ignore them? The accrual basis of accounting is guided by the principle that says the revenue earned by a business must match all the expenses incurred to generate that revenue. This course will explain the step-by-step procedures to properly record incomplete transactions at the end of an accounting period. The transactions typically involve expenses revenue and depreciation. Accrual accounting procedures will ensure that your financial information about the businesss performance is accurate. After all accurate financial information is the basis for making crucial decisions in any successful business. ...
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Accounting for Merchandising Businesses
by Skillsoft - Business
A merchandising business is a business that buys goods and sells them for profit. Merchandising businesses which include wholesalers and retailers typically handle inventory therefore accounting procedures exist to record the cost of goods sold or not sold. This course will provide practical information about maintaining accounts and generating financial statements specifically for merchandising businesses. Applying these accounting procedures will help keep a business in control of its goods and ultimately its profit margin. ...
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Corporate Restructuring
by Skillsoft - Business
Corporate restructuring is frightening but it doesnt have to scare you to death! This course will show you how to initiate successful mergers or resist hostile takeovers. As well it will improve your chances of surviving financial distress. Whatever your restructuring situation you will be prepared to handle it by taking this course! ...
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Principles of External Auditing
by Skillsoft - Business
The thought of an external auditor coming to your company may make you feel uneasy. This course will help you understand how external auditors and companies work together to ensure an accurate audit report. This course will familiarize you with terminology concepts strategies and techniques that are specific to external auditing and its practice. You can expect to develop a solid understanding of planning an audit and assessing audit risk while examining internal controls. Finally you will learn about auditing financial statements. ...
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Investment Project Analysis and Selection
by Skillsoft - Business
Dont be intimidated by corporate finance and choosing appropriate investment projects. If you are a corporate manager faced with choosing between different investment projects this course will be helpful. You will learn how to choose corporate projects based on the different project analysis models and advanced analysis tools. ...
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Accounting for Cash Control
by Skillsoft - Business
Businesses operate on cash and strive to earn it. Cash can be defined as dollars and coins checks vouchers and money orders. Accounting procedures are established to ensure that cash receipts and cash disbursements are protected. This course explores the accounting methods for internal control of cash such as petty cash bank reconciliation and payroll. Understanding the processing recording and safekeeping of cash are vital to the financial stability of a business. ...
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Accounting for Corporations
by Skillsoft - Business
Did you know that basic accounting transactions for corporations are different than other types of business organizations? Do you need to learn more about the basic accounting principles of corporations? This course is designed to teach you how to perform basic accounting procedures specifically for corporations. You will learn how to record the issuance of stock and record transactions in the corporations accounts. In addition you will learn how to determine total and per share shareholder equity. ...
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Overview of Managerial Accounting
by Skillsoft - Business
Managerial accounting is an activity that provides financial and nonfinancial information to business managers and other internal decision makers of an organization. This course examines how managerial accounting information is gathered and how it is used by business professionals to make effective decisions. Lessons such as fundamentals of managerial accounting cost accounting concept and managerial accounting approaches will provide you with the concepts procedures and analytical skills youll need to make informed decisions in todays complex business environment. ...
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Accounting Fundamentals
by Skillsoft - Business
How does a business achieve and maintain profitability? An understanding and an accurate application of accounting practices are hallmarks of a successful and financially progressive business. Accounting is a distinct discipline with its own standards and language. Understanding accounting procedures requires a prerequisite knowledge of certain principles concepts terms and common accounting records. This practical course gives you the whys and hows to accurately conduct accounting activities. "Accounting Fundamentals" examines the theories of accounting how to maintain accounting records and how to generate financial statements. A business deals with many transactions in a single day so its important to keep up-to-date records of its finances. If you are an Entrepreneur or just looking to learn more about accounting, this course is for you. ...
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Principles of Internal Auditing
by Skillsoft - Business
This course will take you to the heart of internal auditing and provide you with a solid foundation of knowledge and skills. You will learn about the issues applications and management strategies relating to the internal audit. You will also learn techniques for taking corrective action and wrapping-up an audit. ...
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