Online Securities eLearning Training

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 Working capital management influences both a firm's 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, more...

Record Retention Does your company have a formal policy for how to retain and dispose of its records? Do you know what records you need to retain, how long you should retain them for, and which disposal techniques you should use? Following the Arthur Andersen case, many companies are reexamining what documents they keep and how long they must keep them. Having a carefully planned and documented record retention more...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ... dramatic corporate and accounting scandals, this federal securities legislation attempts to combat corporate fraud and to enhance the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws. The act's provisions have helped to enhance audit committee responsibility and auditor oversight, including prior approval for non-audit services by the auditor and the more...

Sarbanes Oxley Whistleblower Protection ...ffort to prevent or reduce the incidence of corporate and securities fraud. Significantly, the Act (technically named "The Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002") provides protection to, and even encourages, employees who would report such fraud. Sarbanes-Oxley provides the most forceful protections to date for corporate whistleblowers. It prohibits retaliation against more...

Data Management and Analysis with Excel 2002 The Data Management and Analysis with Excel 2002 WBT is the second course in the Office XP: Excel 2002 curriculum. This course teaches the user how to effectively manage data in Excel and analyse data based on certain functions. The functions dealt with in this course include mathematical, logical, date and time, text, lookup and reference, financial, and statistical functions. Additionally, the more...