Essential Skills Pack

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This pack offers CPE credit in the following fields of study: Accounting, Business Law, Business Management and Organization, Communications and Marketing, Management Services, Behavioral Ethics

Elevate your professional expertise with this comprehensive course bundle, offering a blend of essential business skills, ethical practices, and practical tools for navigating today's dynamic environment.

• MBAexpress delivers six 1-hour modules on crucial topics such as business law, budgeting, disaster recovery, financial analysis, negotiation, and fraud prevention—perfect for sharpening your business acumen.
• Explore the ethical challenges and risks of AI in business, in this 2-hour session led by experts Karl Ahlrichs and Jennifer Elder, to ensure responsible use of transformative technology.
• Strengthen your commitment to ethical principles in accounting, financial reporting, and public accounting to uphold professional integrity.
• Master cost-volume-profit analysis and decision-making techniques to enhance financial performance, even in uncertain times, with hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios.

Expand your knowledge and skills with these expertly designed courses from the Business Learning Institute, a NASBA-registered sponsor of continuing professional education.

Who Will Benefit

• CPAs in public practice
• Corporate finance teams
• Business leaders
• Global accounting and finance professionals
• Management accountants
• Consulting firm professionals
• Other financial professionals

Key Topics

• Business law and contracts
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Disaster recovery planning
• Fraud prevention
• Financial analysis methods
• Negotiation strategies
• AI risks and ethical frameworks
• Ethical principles in accounting
• Cost accounting and decision-making

Learning Outcomes

• Identify legal issues related to corporate management, employee manuals, intellectual property, and contracts. Recognize the components of a contract and ways to protect intellectual properties.
• Recognize key differences between planning and budgeting, recall key elements of rolling forecasts, and identify best practices for the planning process.
• Assess the impact of disasters on businesses, identify important assets to protect and strategies for safeguarding them, and rank disasters by potential risks.
• Recall the definition of the fraud triangle, recognize the purpose and use of fraud risk assessments, determine opportunities for fraud within organizations, and identify key components in financial and ratio analysis, as well as methods for predicting cash flow.
• Recall the definition of negotiation, identify six key negotiation skills, seven steps for negotiation success, and ten steps for achieving common goal negotiations.
• Recognize principles foundational to ethical behavior, recall strategies for responsible AI development and governance in accounting and finance, recognize ethical challenges with generative AI tools, and identify the impact of data bias on AI-generated outputs.
• Identify and respond to ethical risks, recall daily ethical dilemmas worldwide and appropriate resolution strategies, and ensure consistency with professional conduct.
• Determine inputs for establishing selling prices, calculate breakeven activity levels for single and multiple-product scenarios, and identify techniques to improve short-term decision-making with uncertainty.