Online Investment eLearning Training

Managing Your 401 k Course description -- More and more companies are providing a 401k as a benefit. Human resource managers frequently counsel their employees on the mechanics and planning of their 401k programs. This course provides a foundation for you to know how to appreciate vesting, select wise investment packages, and understand diversification. You will also be given tools and strategies for understanding more...

Face to Face Communications : Active Listening Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course will help you sharpen up your active listening skills. It will help you give and receive the right message and make the most of every conversation you're involved in. Developing excellent communication skills requires investment, more...

Face to Face Communications : Making a Contribution to a Meeting Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. Meetings are the primary tool businesses use for group communication. This course shows you how to make meetings as productive as possible. It demonstrates how careful preparation ensures you get the best out of meetings and shows how you can more...

Face to Face Communications : Effective Questioning Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course focuses on the art of questioning. It examines the difference between open and closed questions and when to use them for best effect. It demonstrates how to use strategic questioning techniques to defuse a difficult situation, more...

Face to Face Communications : Non-verbal Communication Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course will help you sharpen your communication skills. It will show you how to interpret other people's body language and tone, ensuring that you receive the right message. It will also help you to develop an awareness of the signals more...

Face to Face Communications : Making your Point Positively Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course concentrates on the art of getting heard and putting your point across. It will help you make the most and the best of every communication and discussion you're involved in, by highlighting communication problems and giving tips on more...

Face to Face Communications : Face to Face Role Play Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course gives you the opportunity to practise and explore your listening, questioning and non-verbal communication skills in a comprehensive and entertaining simulation Developing excellent communication skills requires investment, but the more...

Organisational Communication :Setting Safety Standards Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course will more...

Organisational Communication : Dealing with Authorities Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether its simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, your responsibility is defined by law. This course will help more...

Organisational Communication : Improving Safety Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, your responsibility is defined by law. This course will more...

Keeping Safe at Work Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course will equip more...

Safety in Industry Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course looks at more...

Dealing with Emergancies Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course will more...

Apply the 4 Phase Process: First Pacific Case Study Competing in the business world isn't a peaceful game. Companies are fighting to win; to build new levels of competitive advantage; to secure customers, market share and profits. The winners rarely succeed by accident. They develop strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course examines how the theories and principles of more...

Account Ability Series: Investment The bottom line is recorded annually in an organisation's financial statements. But is it what it seems? Managers who understand how to read a set of accounts and are able to interpret what the accounts say about an organisation's profitability, liquidity and growth can gain a valuable insight into the real performance of their competitors, customers and suppliers. Account Ability takes you more...

Preparing for the Executive-level Sale Simulation ... service provider. Your company has recently made a large investment toward the goal of becoming a "one-stop" shop with its new Fulfillment Division. You are charged with selling the new fulfillment service to your existing client base, as well as prospecting for new accounts. As you begin preparing to sell the new service, you discover that one of your clients, MicroGalaxy, is having trouble more...

Closing Executive-level Sales Simulation ...mail service provider. Your company recently made a large investment toward the goal of becoming a "one-stop" shop and now offers fulfillment services. You are responsible for selling these new services to your existing client base, as well as prospecting for new accounts. You have previously identified, researched, and analyzed a promising potential client, MicroGalaxy Inc. They currently use more...

The Insurance Industry Overview Version 2 ...face of low underwriting profitability and the cushion of investment returns begins to shrink, insurance companies are looking to sharpen their marketing efforts, cut overheads, and reduce claims leakage. They are also finding ways to optimize the use of technology to cope with the changing regulatory and competitive landscape, and capitalize on opportunities thrown open by emerging more...

ITIL Configuration and Release Management ...investments in their information technology infrastructures. That investment pays off only if the organization uses its information resources to increase productivity. Information technology planners and managers must understand how the components of the IT infrastructure interact if they want to eliminate waste and improve service to the users of the system. The delivery and support of IT more...

Managerial Decisions and Capital Budgeting ...ose 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 today's complex business environment. This course is targeted specifically for business managers, financial more...

PrimeFinance Making Investment Decisions This course describes the decision points that support capital budgeting within an organization, and continues to explore how a range of techniques (including CVP, NPV, payback, IRR, and ARR) can be used to conduct short- and long-term project evaluations within this process. Department managers who need to take on budgetary responsibilities, input into business decisions and participate more...

Introduction to Advanced Finance ...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. This course is designed specifically for business managers, more...

Investment Project Analysis and Selection ...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. This course is designed specifically for business managers, financial more...

Raising Capital and Financing Decisions 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. This course is designed more...

Managing Working Capital ...s. 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 more...

Corporate Restructuring Corporate restructuring is frightening, but it doesn't 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 This course is designed specifically for business managers, more...

Financial Risk Management 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 more...

International Finance 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 more...

Final Exam Advanced Business Finance Generally taken near the end of a program, Final Exam: Advanced Business Finance enables the learner to test their knowledge in a testing environment. Individuals seeking practice in a testing environment, covering the skills and competencies being measured by the courseware. more...

Strategic IT Planning Simulation For the duration of this simulation, you will assume the role of Senior IT Manager (north-east region) of Easton National Bank. As a new hire, you will face lingering legacy issues and a senior management staff that is increasingly skeptical of IT value in light of costly expenditures that have yielded little return on investment. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series "Strategic IT more...

Lean Concepts ...to find new ways to dramatically reduce costs and improve investment returns while better serving their customers. To meet these challenges, organizations have turned to Lean Thinking, which seeks the elimination of all forms of waste, strives for continuous improvement, and simplifies business processes. This course explores how businesses that implement Lean Thinking learn how to reduce more...

Training and Development The most valued resource of any organization is its people. In today's corporate landscape of technological advancement, employees must be trained to align with the strategic direction of the business. Managers of quality should know that improvements in workplace productivity contribute positively to the overall well-being of the organization. This course explores the importance of investing in more...

Convergence of Communications This WestNet e-Learning module discusses how wide area network (WAN) technologies support and help implement converged communications, voice, video, and data all transported over the same physical network topologies. We will also investigate components key to integrating puclic swiched telephone network (PSTN) and data communications. more...

VoIP Services This module introduces VoIP Services. We define and explain packet telephony, its benefits and potential pitfalls, and why private users, small and large businesses, and the industry press see this technology as the next great telecommunications revolution. We introduce the many components that make up a converged voice network, and examine their roles. We explore the market drivers pushing more...

Advanced Project Leadership: Bringing Home the Value Advanced Project Leadership: Bringing Home the Value teaches project managers to consider both the monetary and non-monetary value of a project first of all by understanding how a project supports strategy. Project Managers will learn how to calculate Earned Value Return on Investment and Net Present Value. They will also learn how to interpret the results to make decisions about the value of a more...

Cal Poly (GRCI) Certificate Course - Computer to Plate for Newspapers The Computer-to-Plate for Newspapers course begins with an overview of CtP technology. This gives you a foundation for understanding the different types of hardware, lasers, and plate choices available. The benefits of CtP are discussed, including cost, speed, quality, and the new capabilities that CtP can provide. Cost issues are discussed, including criteria to take into account when calculating more...

Cal Poly (GRCI) Certificate Course - Computer to Plate for Newspapers The Computer-to-Plate for Newspapers course begins with an overview of CtP technology. This gives you a foundation for understanding the different types of hardware, lasers, and plate choices available. The benefits of CtP are discussed, including cost, speed, quality, and the new capabilities that CtP can provide. Cost issues are discussed, including criteria to take into account when calculating more...

Business Finance: Risk Analysis Business Finance: Risk Analysis offers the student an overview of the information required to identify calculate and assess both individual investments and investment portfolios. The program details types of risks associated with investments gives equations used to calculate risk and provides information about how to assess the results of the equations.  more...

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).  more...