AED University Web-Based Course Catalog
Build professional skills and competencies without leaving the dealership. The AED Foundation is proud to offer an updated and expanded group of industry-specific Web-based professional education courses.
All of The AED Foundation's Web-based courses are highly interactive, yet easy to navigate. Content is delivered in a well-organized, industry-specific context with structured learning activities, knowledge checks, examples, and visuals. Learners will enjoy bright graphics, relevant examples, and most importantly, solid content that is guaranteed to fill performance gaps and build professional skills and competency.
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Financial Management 101: Introduction to Business Finance for Non-Financial Managers PRICE TYPE
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| AED Members
| $295.00 for 30 days of access
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CEU CREDIT: 0.8
| Approximate length: 6 - 8 hours
Course Description:
Financial Management 101: Introduction to Business Finance for Non-Financial Managers uses an interactive Web-based interface to teach the fundamental elements of accounting and finance in the context of a distributorship environment. This AED Foundation Web-based course encourages participation and content retention while promoting important core financial concepts.
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 the your position within your distributorship.
- Use the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement to form conclusions, ideas, and hypothesis about the financial state of the distributorship.
Financial Management 101 is a course for anyone in the distributorship who:
- Has never experienced a formal introduction to business finance and accounting
- Needs a refresher course on business and finance because of a promotion or change in job responsibilities
- Manages a department or team and is responsible for setting activity and productivity goals and metrics
- Wants a deeper understanding of the path of the dollar through the dealership to ensure professional competency
- Reads and interprets financial statements to make management decisions
- Wants to establish a strong foundation of business acumen and core financial knowledge
Financial Management 101: Introduction to Business Finance for Non-Financial Managers features 7 individual blocks of content:
Block One: The Roots of Accounting: Explores the foundational elements of modern business finance.
Block Two: Cash Accounting vs. Accrual Accounting: Examines the two main systems of accountancy.
Block Three: The Accounting Cycle: Guides the learner through the modern accounting cycle and introduces several concepts and terms relating to modern business financial practices.
Block Four: The Financial Statement: Examines the purpose and common elements of financial statements as well as the relationship between the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement.
Block Five: The Balance Sheet: Explains the function and purpose of the balance sheet and how one can interpret the information on a balance sheet to learn about a business. Offers a thorough line-by-line explanation of a balance sheet using AED's Cost of Doing Business Model.
Block Six: The Income Statement: Analyzes the information and concepts of an income statement and provides a line-by-line explanation of an income statement using AED's Cost of Doing Business Model.
Block Seven: The Cash Flow Statement: Discusses the two major styles of preparing a cash flow statement and examines the sources and uses of cash. Concludes with a line-by-line explanation of the cash flow statement and an analysis of the information that the cash flow statement contains.
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Financial Management 102: Introduction to Ratio Analysis for Non-Financial Managers PRICE TYPE
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| AED Members
| $295.00 for 30 days of access
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CEU CREDIT: 0.8
| Approximate length: 6 - 8 hours
Course Description:
Financial Management 102: Introduction to Ratio Analysis for Non-Financial Managers uses an interactive Web-based interface to teach the fundamental elements ratio analysis in the context of a distributorship environment. This AED Foundation Web-based course will show non-financial managers who already know how to read and interpret financial statements how to use the values on these sheets to analyze the financial performance of individual departments and the dealership as a whole. Participants will use sample financial statements to perform calculations and interpret the performance of two fictional dealerships.
Upon completion of Financial Management 102, participants will be able to:
- Define and describe the function and purpose of the income statement, the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement with 100% accuracy
- Name each of the four major categories of financial ratios and describe the purposes of each with 100% accuracy
- Describe the two major ways to use financial ratios in business with 100% accuracy
- Match a given financial ratio to its definition when provided with a list of financial ratios and definitions
- Correctly calculate several profitability, asset utilization, liquidity, and solvency financial ratios when provided with sample dealership income statements and balance sheets:
- Analyze the value and implications to the dealership of several profitability, asset utilization, liquidity, and solvency financial ratios as calculated from sample dealership financial statements:
Financial Management 102 is a course for anyone in the distributorship who:
- Has never experienced a formal introduction to ratio analysis
- Needs a refresher course on ratio analysis because of a promotion or change in job responsibilities
- Manages a department or team and is responsible for setting activity and productivity goals and metrics
- Wants a deeper understanding of the path of the dollar through the dealership to ensure professional competency
- Reads and interprets financial statements to make management decisions
- Wants to establish a strong foundation of business acumen and core financial knowledge
Financial Management 102: Introduction to Ratio Analysis for Non-Financial Managers features 6 individual blocks of content plus a review of the essential elements of financial statements:
Review Block 00: Essential Elements of Financial Statements
Block 1: Financial Statement Analysis: Ratios
Block 2: Profitability Ratios
Block 3: Asset Utilization Ratios
Block 4: Liquidity Ratios
Block 5: Solvency Ratios
Block 6: The Absorption Factor
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