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The Professional Teller: Following Security Procedures 


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Security Procedures offers the student an overview of internal and external security measure that banks take, what procedures the student should follow to ensure bank security, and what actions the student should take in response to angry or violent customers and/or suspicious activity. The program also covers the common types of crimes committed against banks, including robbery,
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Project Management Professional Time Management II 


Project
Management:
Time Management II, is the fourth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to determine the appropriate project activities to crash, determine the appropriate project activities to fast track and identify the implications of resource leveling. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project
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Working with Your Customer s Key Players 
...ng contacts at target accounts that can become part of an internal "network of coaches" for the sales process. Then, you'll learn about gaining access to senior-level management and dealing with "gatekeepers." By effectively communicating with the right people in your accounts, you'll help to ensure positive sales results
Individuals responsible for sales, sales support, business or account
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Gaining Access to Key Personnel at Your Target Accounts 
In this course, you'll learn about the second major component of the territorial account sales approach: communication. You'll start by learning about coaching relationships. A vital part of your sales effectiveness depends on finding a key contact in each target account that can become your internal coach for the sales process. Then, you'll learn about gaining access to the right level at your
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ITIL The Service Desk and Incident Management 
...internal or external customers need to provide excellent services to increase the quality of, and the profits for, the organization. The IT infrastructure library (
ITIL) can help organizations achieve these goals. At the same time, ITIL can help organizations to increase external and internal customer satisfaction. The delivery and support of IT services are divided into core processes within
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Excellence in Internal Customer Service 
... everyone within the organization works to provide their "internal" customers with better service, then the end customers will receive a much higher quality service in the long run. Focusing on your internal customers not only helps your organization to survive and prosper, but also has the added benefit of motivating your employees, meeting their needs, and promoting a satisfying environment
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Working With Internal Customers 
...the needs and expectations of your fellow employees, your internal customers. By helping other people within your organization, you enable it to succeed. Great internal customer service improves people's morale, productivity, and external customer service, and ultimately makes your organization more financially secure. Giving great service to your internal customers means that people you work
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Overcoming Internal Customer Service Problems 
...internal customers isn't always smooth sailing. When internal customer service does not go according to plan, problems occur, or communication breaks down, what can you do to get your plans back on track, and break down barriers? At times like these, you and your employees need to act swiftly and proactively to solve the problem, and regain the customer's trust. In this course, you'll learn the
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The Customer Service Agent in Action 
There are now some 7 million customer service agents (
CSAs) working in nearly 80,000 call centers in the
United States. Call centers are burgeoning in
Europe and the
Pacific Rim as well, and experts predict that the number of CSAs will grow by 20 percent each year. Worldwide, revenues for the call center industry could soon reach almost $60 billion. The magnitude of these numbers suggests the
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Professional Skills for Customer Service Agents 
As a customer service agent (
CSA), the focus of your job is to solve customers' problems within a short amount of time. To do this, you have to understand the optimum methods for professionally processing a large volume of customers representing many different personality types. This can be a challenging task. You can successfully handle an agent's workload while satisfying customers by mastering
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Managing Challenges in Customer Service 
During an average working day in a call center, customer service agents (
CSAs) handle dozens of customer calls. The calls may range from simple requests for product information to urgent demands for solutions to complex problems. The callers may range from quiet, logical, and professional in their manner to noisy, impatient, and infuriated. CSAs are expected to meet the challenges of handling all
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Cross-selling in a Customer Service Call 
If there's one advantage most companies have learned to appreciate in recent years, it's "flexibility". Technology, the economy, and global events have forced companies to cope with a host of new challenges by being flexible. Flexibility is a key factor in customer call centers. As a customer service agent (
CSA), you handle dozens of calls a day, effectively helping customers by providing
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Customer Service Agent Skills Simulation 
Kenworth
Domestic Appliances (
KDA) is a national manufacturer and direct seller of household devices, offering a line of products that ranges from toasters to central-air conditioning units. Post-sales support is critical to their operation, and KDA prides itself on superior customer service. For the duration of this simulation, the learner will assume the role of customer service agent generalist
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Consulting with the Internal Client Simulation 
...Internal consultants have become more and more prevalent in the business world today. Rather than hiring an outside firm, many companies are building their own internal consulting units. These units are faster, cheaper, and more connected to the projects they manage. Internal consultants within these units must have strong communication, research, diagnostic, and presentation skills. In this
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Evaluating Internal Assignments 
...sonally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an internal consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This course will help you to review internal consulting projects, complete successful handoffs, and identify improvement opportunities to "kick start" your personal development. Anyone with some specialist
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Essentials of Internal Consulting 
...haps you've now been asked to deploy your knowledge in an internal consulting role. Or maybe you've always been attracted to this role and you would now like to find out more? What will it mean for you? What does an internal consultant do? How do you become one? And if you have just become one, what is expected of you? This course addresses these questions. If it is a new role for you, it will
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Managing Delivery 
Delivering to clients is the most important thing you do as an external consultant. Everything else--the selling and the fighting to win the contract--stands for nothing if you fail to deliver outstanding results time and time again. To keep your reputation intact, delivering to time, quality, and budget is the very least that you must achieve. To ensure that clients remain enthusiastic about what
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A Workable Solution for Internal Clients 
...internal consultant is that of "making things happen."
But making decisions isn't always easy. There are so many options and you may encounter resistance to changes you propose during internal consulting assignments. How should you deal with this? And how can you be so sure that working practices won't simply revert back once you're "off the scene?" You don't want to be seen as a "visitor" who
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Establishing a Relationship with Internal Clients 
...internal to your organization, you still need to spend time getting to know them, and understanding what it is they require from you. When you are dealing with internal clients, there may be a temptation to think you know everything about them, and about the project. This course will stop you from making that mistake. It will enable you to understand your clients' needs clearly, in terms of
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Internal Consulting Skills 
...internal consultant? What skills do you have already, and which should you develop further? This course gives you the opportunity to review your existing abilities and ways of improving your current performance. Internal consulting is not only about your specialist or technical knowledge. It's about your ability to communicate. If you fail to get your message across to other people, your ideas
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The Technical Professional as Internal Consultant 
Traditionally, consultants have been seen as experts outside an organization who are hired to appraise a situation and recommend paths toward improvement. These agents of change may be brought in to downsize a company, recommend efficiency improvements, recommend ways to improve employee morale, or facilitate other changes. Today, companies are selecting technical professionals within the
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Creating Effective Contracts 
When you hear the word "contract", you may think of a written, legal document. However, when it comes to consulting relationships, contracts are more about setting expectations and involving the right people instead of setting legal parameters. In this course, you'll examine how to approach contracting, the considerations that are most important, and how you should approach the contracting
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Project Management Professional Scope Management 


Project
Management:
Scope Management, is the second of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify sources of scope creep, identify the steps in controlling scope creep and identify the steps in scope verification. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques within the areas
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Project Management Professional Time Management I 


Project
Management:
Time Management I, is the third of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to calculate the critical path, calculate float and identify essential network concepts. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques within the areas of organization, resource management,
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Project Management Professional Cost Management 


Project
Management:
Cost Management, is the fifth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to calculate a cost performance index, calculate a schedule performance index and calculate your estimate at completion using three different methods . The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination
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Project Management Professional Risk Management 


Project
Management:
Risk Management, is the ninth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the four responses to risk, identify methods of prioritizing risks and calculate the expected monetary value for different decisions. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques
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Making Group Decisions Working Together 
This course introduces several strategies to recognize and overcome challenges that can hamper a general group consensus. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.
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Personal Accountability Working for Your Inner Boss 
Most employees in business organizations must answer to someone else. From the top of the organization chart to the bottom, nearly every manager and employee must look to a supervisor, a director, or even a customer to establish priorities, assign tasks, set deadlines, and evaluate results. Whoever gives this direction is called the boss. On one level, the boss decides how employees will perform
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Self-empowerment Managing from Within 
Have you ever thought that you could be the best boss you've ever had? By developing attitudes and skills that empower you, you can manage from within and become your own best boss. Self-empowerment is the process of taking responsibility for your attitudes, behaviors, and actions at work to maximize your effectiveness. As an empowered employee, you will be driven by ownership, initiative, and
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Developing a Positive Attitude 
Oftentimes your success or failure depends not only on the situation you are in, but how you react to that situation. Your reaction to the situations you encounter is significantly influenced by your attitude. Having a positive attitude involves looking for the best in a situation, being realistic about possibilities and consequences, and having the courage to believe that you can succeed. It
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Preparing a Business Case 
Why put time and effort into preparing, writing, and presenting a business case for new projects? Why not just talk to the manager and get his approval for the project? The answers to these questions lie in the fact that organizational budgets for new projects are typically very tight and, as such, your project will be competing against other projects for funding. Without a written business case,
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Writing a Business Case 
Which would you rather do: prepare a business case for your latest project or go to the dentist? Given the choice, many of us would tend to choose the latter.Whether you want to invest in product development or reinvent your business processes with new marketing channels, it is now more important than ever to have a business case that is carefully planned, written, and presented, especially when
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Presenting Your Case 
Have you ever attended a presentation that failed because the presenter was ill prepared or ineffective in his approach? A successful presenter must possess the proper skills to plan and deliver an effective business case presentation and employ strategies to establish and maintain the audience's attention. This course examines the careful planning and delivery of a business case presentation. It
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Preparing an Effective Internal Business Case Simulation 
For the purposes of this simulation, you are a senior product line manager of women's apparel for
Zenith Athletics a national manufacturer of athletic gear and clothing. When an ambitious subordinate proposes a major market-research project geared toward the creation of a new line of mom-and-tot exercise apparel, you offer your assistance in the preparation of a business case. Tasks focus on the
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Succession Planning Management 
So, you have a succession plan and you've identified some problems. What do you do now? By taking this course, you will learn how to establish a leadership and talent development program that will ensure your succession plan achieves its goals. You will also learn how to overcome some common challenges that management teams face when trying to find the right people for a position. Since succession
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Hiring Considerations 
Recruitment is a complex and important activity for a manager. Effective hiring requires effective preparation. The recruitment process must be fair and safe, and there is plenty of legislation to trip up the unwary manager. Getting any part of this wrong is expensive, time consuming, and damaging to the good name of the company. This course will give you a brief overview of the major employment
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Managerial Decisions and Capital Budgeting 
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
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Overview of Managerial Accounting 
...d 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
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Accounting for Cash Control 
...rotected. 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. Individuals who require knowledge of the basics of accounting, who are starting a business, who are learning to manage the accounting
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Six Sigma and the Voice of the Customer 
Do you know the phrase, "caveat emptor"? It's a
Latin term that means, "
Let the buyer beware." It's also a legal principle stating that consumers must purchase goods at their own risk, because unless specifically asked, the seller is generally under no obligation to disclose defects. Caveat emptor once struck fear in the hearts of many wary consumers. Fortunately, the tide has turned. Increased
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Six Sigma Introduction 
There has been an increased interest in
Six Sigma in recent years. But what is Six Sigma? This course will introduce you to the foundational concepts of the Six Sigma philosophy and process. It will help you successfully participate in your organization's Six Sigma program. First, you will learn how poor quality harms your business. You will explore what Six Sigma means and the critical elements
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Competitive Factors in Strategic Marketing 
You've got a great idea for a new product or service for your organization, or a major enhancement for an existing one. Now you've got to present the case to the decision-makers to go forward. What kinds of topics should you include in your strategic marketing plan? In this course you'll learn exactly what to consider as you develop and present your plan, including market data and competitor
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Writing a Marketing Plan Phase 1 
This course will define the marketing plan, types of plans and outline the purposes for using a marketing plan. You will then get started on writing the plan by establishing objectives and working on introductory elements. Then, you'll complete a situational analysis that evaluates the overall market, industry, internal and competitive factors pertinent to your product or service. Finally, you'll
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Elements of Marketing Strategy 
You want to develop a powerful, and well-documented marketing strategy in order to get your new product or service approved. This course is designed to give you a strong start in developing your marketing vision, direction, and ultimately a plan. You'll get an overview of the key factors encompassing the broad scope of strategic marketing. You'll be able to discuss cost structures and their
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Developing and Deploying Strategic Plans 
...ther success factors include understanding market forces, internal strengths and weaknesses, stakeholders, relevant technology, and legal and regulatory factors. With these considerations, an organization's action plan can be developed and deployed, and its effectiveness evaluated.This course explores the concepts of strategic planning models, business environmental analysis, and strategic plan
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Customer Focused Management 
...course explores the relationship between the treatment of internal customers and the impact on external customers. It examines techniques used to identify and segment external customers, while anticipating customer priorities, needs, and expectations. Strategies for incorporating customer service principles are also analyzed. It is aligned with the
Quality Management Division of the
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Continual Quality Improvement 
...ontinually improved. These activities, along with ongoing internal audits, provide data that is analyzed to guide both corrective and preventive improvements to an organization's work flow processes, products, and services. These guidelines also help to identify and segregate nonconforming products before they reach the customer. This course is designed for all quality assurance stakeholders
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Steps for Successful ISO Registration 
...nagement commitment must be obtained, a steering team and internal audit program established, and the appropriate registrar selected. Preparing for registration involves creating four levels of documentation beginning with the quality manual, identifying areas that require improvement, and ensuring quality procedures and work instructions are in place. This course emphasizes the importance of
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Code of Conduct - The Work Place 
This course enables you to identify guidelines for working in a secure and healthy environment and to recognize the importance of clear boundaries and effective communication both internal and external to the company. Compliance areas covered include discrimination and harassment,
EEO, violence, safety and health, environmental safety, political activities, quality communications, and crisis
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Intellectual Property Overview 
...le still communicating the company's identity or ideas to internal and external customers. How does management perform this function effectively while keeping the law on its side? This course explains the basic types of intellectual property, the legal protections in place, and the potential consequences of violating intellectual property rights. The course covers current copyright, patent, and
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Record Retention 
...ocumented record retention policy supports your company's internal documentation and accounting systems and addresses the compliance requirements of state and federal law. While disposing of too many records can increase a company's legal exposure, disposing of too few records increases the costs of storing the records. In this one-hour course, you'll learn how to identify which records must be
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HIPAA Implementing Privacy Rules 
... the healthcare industry. Organizations that don't change internal procedures to comply with
HIPAA regulations risk significant fines. This course offers a practical guide to implementing and complying with the HIPAA privacy rules. The course helps healthcare professionals, managers, and staff personnel understand HIPAA regulations and how to implement the changes required for compliance.
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Access Configuration in ISA Server 2004 
...e access to
Internet resources and to configure access to internal resources IT professionals responsible for implementing network and perimeter security measures, including Internet firewalls, application layer filters, and screened networks; IT professionals responsible for implementing caching servers and additional mechanisms to protect public-facing
Web servers; IT professionals who have a
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Gathering Requirements 
This module outlines a formal five-phase approach to network design. . It can be used by an outside consultant or an internal
Information Services (IS) group. This network design process, as presented here, is very methodical. This level of detail helps ensure that the designer gathers all necessary information, considers all options, and keeps all key players well informed. Experienced network
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Building and Securing VoIP Networks 
To identify how to implement numbering plans and scalable dial plans for
VoIP networks, calculate existing bandwidth and additional bandwidth requirements for voice and data traffic, and recognize the implications of implementing security measures in IP networks that transport voice IT professionals responsible for preparing, configuring, and maintaining a voice and data network; candidates
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ABAP Programming I 
To create a basic and an interactive report program using
ABAP and to recognize how to preform basic object-oriented tasks such as creating and instantiating a class
Project team members who will be involved at a programming level in customizing
SAP implementations using SAP's ABAP programming language
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SAP R 3 4 6 CO Cost Object Controlling 
...O Cost
Object Controlling gives employees, working within internal accounting, an overview of tasks within cost element accounting dealing with all the costs related to the production process and important for the product cost calculation. The initial unit provides an introduction to
SAP R/3 4.6 s fundamental features; explaining how to log on to the system as well as navigating around the
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Business Code of Conduct: Ethical Responsibility 
This course examines ethical responsibility in the workplace by focusing on relationships with customers prospects competition suppliers creditors and employees. identify effects of ethical behavior on the internal constituencies of a company. identify effects of ethical behavior on the external constituencies of a company. identify features of a corporate code of conduct. identify issues that a
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Server+ Certification Part 2: Upgrading 


The is the second course in a four-part series on
CompTIA's
Server+ Certification. This course covers performing different types of backups and how to verify that a backup has taken place. Different types of upgrades that can be performed, such as adding a processor and hard drive, increasing memory, upgrading
BIOS/firmware are covered. In addition, upgrading both internal and external peripheral
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Customer Care: Who is the Customer? 
Customer
Care:
Who is the
Customer? is the third of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the four steps in the customer relationship management process identify internal customers and identify the benefits of value chain management. The
PrimeCustomer Care curriculum offers a useful toolkit of practical customer care techniques and job
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Server+ Certification Part 2: Upgrading 
The is the second course in a four-part series on
CompTIA's
Server+ Certification. This course covers performing different types of backups and how to verify that a backup has taken place. Different types of upgrades that can be performed such as adding a processor and hard drive increasing memory upgrading
BIOS/firmware are covered. In addition upgrading both internal and external peripheral
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SAP R/3 CO Cost Object Controlling 
This course is designed to show how
Cost Object Controlling is carried out in
SAP R/3. It provides a general introduction to the theory of Cost Object Controlling and introduces the relevant menus and screens. The course shows where direct costs and overheads are entered and covers aspects of bills of materials and routings. The steps involved in processing an order as well as the associated
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SAP R/3 IM Investment Management 
This course deals with investment programs (structure planning and budget) internal orders investment procedures (characteristics master data postings accounts receivable depreciation settlement) and the information system (research planned values and budget values).
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