Welcome to AED University

AED University is an educational service of The AED Foundation, an affiliate of the Associated Equipment Distributors.  The curriculum includes industry-specific training in management, parts, service, sales, rental and customer service. We are also pleased to introduce technical and safety and compliance training through our online educational partners.

Participants are automatically enrolled on the AED University Learning Management System (LMS), a site that facilitates the delivery of seminars, self-study and online courses. It is an integrated, online management tool designed to help supervisors and employees plan, select, coordinate and track their educational experiences.

For further assistance contact Pat Novak, Education Program Manager, at 1-800-388-0650 x347 or email pnovak@aednet.org.

Important Events

New for 2009!!
Safety ROI: Build a Safe Culture to Reduce Accidents and Costs

Presented by Dr. Isabel Perry
October 20-21, 2009
Des Plaines, IL
Be safe and not sorry: Stop the cash drain on your dealership by creating a safe workplace.

This seminar is designed specifically for participants to be actively involved in the learning process. The training is a vigorous program that will move rapidly and systemically toward the development of a solid safety culture. Regardless of the status of your current safety program, this seminar contains tools and techniques to enable you advance it to the next level.

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AEDUniversity ONLINE Course
Financial Management 101:
Introduction to Business Finance For Non-Financial Managers

CLICK HERE for DEMO

As a manager you have goals and expectations for yourself and for your team – and your executive team has goals and expectations for you. Understanding the path of the dollar through your dealership will help you to connect these goals and expectations to the financial status of your dealership. The ability to speak the language of business accounting and finance coupled with the ability to understand financial statements will enable you to be in the know when it comes to your dealership, your branch, and your department.

Upon completion of Financial Management 101 participants will be able to:

  • Interpret and comprehend the three major financial statements commonly employed by AED member companies: Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement.
  • Understand the basic principles and processes of business accountancy and finance.
  • Use the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement to actively inform activity and productivity goals and measures to the extent appropriate to your position within you distributorship.
  • Use the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement to form conclusions, ideas, an hypothesis about the financial state of the distributorship.
Click here to experience a new way of learning the financial aspects of your business.


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