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Business and Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Having an entrepreneurial spirit and a good idea is a great foundation to starting your own business. But you may need a bit more to succeed. This course explores the different aspects of entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs create and establish successful new ventures. It reviews issues and activities involved in starting a new business, including the decisions that must be made before an enterprise can be launched and established.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $129
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Strategic Marketing for Entrepreneurs
This course reviews the strategic issues that an entrepreneur faces while starting a new venture or business, and highlights the questions about market acceptance that must be answered during every stage of the entrepreneurial process.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $129
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Inc. Magazine: Building a Fast-Growing Business
Startups and small businesses are the growth engines of the American economy, but that growth doesn't just happen by itself. Growing a business takes time, hard work, and skill—and it certainly helps when you can get a lot of practical advice along the way. This bundle is based on Inc. Magazine's award-winning journalistic content and features practical, experience-based assignments that will provide entrepreneurs and small-business owners with the skills necessary to navigate the various stages of growing a business. Courses in this bundle offer real-world examples, how-to lists and advice, industry spotlights, videos from industry-leading practitioners, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material. Finance 101 for Entrepreneurs Hiring, Managing and Developing Talent Marketing 2020: Strategy & Execution Optimizing Operations and Managing Crises Becoming a Better Leader Selling Like a Pro
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $399
Hours to Complete: 18
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
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Optimizing Operations and Managing Crises
This completely online and self-paced one-module course utilizes Inc. Magazine's prize-winning editorial content to introduce basic concepts of business operations and crisis management. The focus is on providing practical, hands-on advice to entrepreneurs and small-business people, including video segments with analysis and commentary from industry-leading practitioners and subject matter experts. The course also offers real-world examples, how-to lists and advice, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material. Included with your course is a one (1) year complimentary subscription to Inc. Magazine ($19.99 value). Your subscription will start with the current issue. Inc. Magazine publishes 8 issues a year.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Selling Like a Pro
This completely online and self-paced one-module course utilizes Inc. Magazine's prize-winning editorial content to introduce basic concepts of sales, including the sales funnel and pipeline; lead qualification; presentations; metrics; and closing. The focus is on providing practical, hands-on advice to entrepreneurs and small-business people, including video segments with analysis and commentary from industry-leading practitioners and subject matter experts. The course also offers real-world examples, how-to lists and advice, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material. Included with your course is a one (1) year complimentary subscription to Inc. Magazine ($19.99 value). Your subscription will start with the current issue. Inc. Magazine publishes 8 issues a year.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Marketing 2020: Strategy & Execution
This completely online and self-paced one-module course utilizes Inc. Magazine's prize-winning editorial content to introduce basic concepts of digital marketing, including targeting; the value proposition; channel management; SEO; and marketing automation. The focus is on providing practical, hands-on advice to entrepreneurs and small-business people, including video segments with analysis and commentary from industry-leading practitioners and subject matter experts. The course also offers real-world examples, how-to lists and advice, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material. Included with your course is a one (1) year complimentary subscription to Inc. Magazine ($19.99 value). Your subscription will start with the current issue. Inc. Magazine publishes 8 issues a year.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Introduction to Small Business Management
Introduction to Small Business Management is designed for prospective and current small business owners, entrepreneurs, and managers who want to understand the basics of running a successful small business. Managing a small business can be quite challenging, and this course provides an overview of small business operations, including business planning, legal issues, financial management, human resources, managing people, marketing, and customer care. Small business owners and managers should be better prepared to effectively deal with common problems and capitalize on market opportunities based on what they've learned.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Project Management for Small Businesses
Small business management involves overseeing both small and large projects. Not all projects require extensive planning, but project management techniques can help teams of all sizes meet their goals more efficiently. This course introduces fundamental project management concepts, reviews common project pitfalls, and explains the importance of each of the five stages of the project life cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Small Business Marketing
Small business operators are often faced with the daunting task of advertising and building a brand with a restricted budget. They must also effectively use social media and search engine optimization to differentiate themselves from their competition and attract potential customers. This course is designed for small business owners, entrepreneurs, managers, and other professionals who want to understand the basics of small business marketing. The material explains how to utilize social media marketing, content marketing, and search engine metrics strategically to reach not necessarily a wide audience, but the right audience. After completing this course, small business owners and marketers will be better prepared to promote their services and products in the highly competitive virtual world.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Certificate in Entrepreneurship
This online certificate program introduces key issues in entrepreneurship for those looking to start a business on their own. What does it take to build and grow a business from scratch? What personal characteristics are shared by successful entrepreneurs? What types of resources are available to budding entrepreneurs, and where can you find them? Learners who complete this program will have the answers to those questions and others that are essential to the success of their businesses. Each 3 to 5 hour, self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, selected readings, case studies, and self-assessments that engage entrepreneurs and structure their learning about their field. Upon successful completion, you can download a printable certificate of completion for this online course suite. This certificate has no textbooks or prerequisites. Upon successful completion of all courses in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $599
Hours to Complete: 25
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
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Certificate in Small Business Management
Owning or managing a small business has a lot of benefits. Small business owners may have the freedom to control their schedules, be able to focus on work that they find fulfilling, and find opportunities to positively impact their communities. But in addition to benefits like these, small business management brings with it some unique challenges. Owners of small businesses often play many roles and must have a wide body of knowledge. In a single day, a small business owner may be required to do any number of varied tasks, like approve a project plan budget, train a new employee, and develop a marketing campaign. This certificate will provide students with a fundamental understanding of the most critical areas in small business management.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $499
Hours to Complete: 30
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
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Start Your Own Business in Career Coaching
This course, Start Your Own Business, it will prepare the individual to launch his or her own small business. Life Coaching is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand professional services. Life Coaches work with clients to help them establish and achieve their professional goals, as well as personal aspirations. This course will provide you with the skills you need to become a successful life coach. Through theoretical and practical applications, you will learn how to work with clients in every aspect of life. You will learn coaching fundamentals, including listening skills and the language of coaching. From there, you will go beyond the basics to learn how to work with individual clients to help them establish their personal and professional goals. When a student completes this course, they will be fully prepared to help individuals through one-on-one and group coaching.
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $3,995
Hours to Complete: 945
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
Business Analysis
Intro to Business Analysis
Business analysis is the discipline of identifying business needs and requirements and designing and executing solutions to business problems. This introductory course provides a wide-ranging overview of the principles and concepts of business analysis, with a focus on the following six areas: needs assessment, stakeholder engagement, requirements elicitation, requirements analysis, requirements tracing and monitoring, and solution evaluation. This course covers the common stages of a business analysis project and describes common terminology and tools and techniques utilized by a business analyst. It provides subject matter expert testimony by business analysis practitioners on important topics related to successfully completing business analysis activities. This course also considers the place of business analysis and product development life cycles within the greater scheme of project life cycle management. While this course is not officially or directly aligned as an exam prep course, it contains sufficient content that can be used as a resource for individuals preparing for the PMI-PBA® or IIBA-CBAP® certification exams, containing over 170 questions.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $599
Hours to Complete: 18
Access to Curriculum Time: 6 months
Sales and Marketing
Sales and Marketing Soft Skills Bundle
The Sales and Marketing Soft Skills Bundle provides basic skills needed for a successful sales and marketing team. Participants will identify challenges and learn to push through to success. Within these workshops students will learn Body Language Basics, Call Center Training, Event Planning, High Performance Teams Inside the Company, In Person Sales, Marketing Basics and Fundamentals, Media and Public Relations, Motivating your Sales Team, Presentation Skills, Sales Fundamentals, Social Media Marketing, Telephone Etiquette, and the Top 10 Sales Secrets. By managing and looking at the way people interact and seeing things in a new light, participants will improve on almost every aspect of their career.
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $199
Hours to Complete: 200
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
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An Overview of Marketing
Marketing has become vital to the success of an organization in today's competitive world. This course provides an introduction to marketing and marketing planning, and addressing the definition of marketing, the marketing mix (the Four Ps), the strategic importance of marketing, and customer values and satisfaction. The course continues into topics of marketing planning including market research, pricing, distribution, and targeting.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Content Marketing
This course offers an introduction to content marketing, a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience. With an emphasis on key concepts, definitions, and metrics, the course examines ways that marketers can tailor their content to meet the specific needs of potential customers as they travel through the sales funnel. Learners will explore how content is used to build brand awareness and establish the brand as a trusted source of expert advice.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $89
Hours to Complete: 3.5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Conversion Rate Optimization
Conversion Rate Optimization is the process of steady and incremental marketing improvement to yield stronger results. In this course, learners will discover the five key steps to Conversion Rate Optimization and how the process interacts with other facets of digital marketing. Through a variety of instructive techniques, including subject matter expert videos and case-study scenarios, this course provides learners with the knowledge and resources to be more effective professionals.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Digital Marketing Strategy
As consumers increasingly turn to the digital marketplace of the Internet, organizations recognize that they can better reach and connect with their customers, clients, or prospects through digital marketing. There are many benefits to effective digital marketing including improved brand perception, more efficient lead generation, and better customer satisfaction levels. That can translate into the sale of more products and services. Creating a digital marketing strategy is crucial to meeting the marketing goals of the organization. This course offers a step-by-step introduction to the process of creating such a strategy, with an emphasis on key concepts, definitions, and metrics.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Google Analytics
Google Analytics is the most popular web analytics software on the market. Whether in small business management or as part of a larger marketing effort, an understanding of how to design and execute campaigns in Google Analytics is becoming increasingly important for marketing success. This course will teach learners to use the application's tools to uncover marketing and sales data, attract web traffic, increase conversions, and create targeted marketing campaigns. The material assumes no prior knowledge of web analytics.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Marketing Automation
This course is designed to help learners develop a solid understanding of the basic concepts and techniques that they will encounter as practitioners in the marketing automation field. Learners in this course will expand their knowledge through games, videos, a case study, quizzes, and other engaging content. Topics of major concern that are discussed in Module 1 include the key concepts, terms, and techniques used in marketing automation. The buying cycle and purchase funnel are described in detail, along with measuring content strategies and calculating the value of customers, followers, likes, and mobile loyalists. In Module 2, the single customer view is introduced as it relates to cultivating leads. The module then covers customer relationship management and email marketing, with emphasis on multi-touch campaigns and lead scoring. Loyalty programs are discussed and methods for measuring their effectiveness. Finally, learners will combine this knowledge with business concepts in order to better inform marketing decisions for their firm.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3.5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Mobile Marketing
In the age of smartphones, it is a foregone conclusion that marketing efforts should be accessible on a mobile device. This course offers an introduction to mobile marketing, looking at strategies for reaching target audiences through multiple channels, including websites, email, social media, and mobile apps. With an emphasis on key concepts, definitions, and metrics, the course explores ways that marketers can leverage the unique benefits of mobile devices to drive profitable customer action.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Paid Search (PPC)
Paid Search advertising, also called pay-per-click (PPC), is used to pay for traffic to visit a website. In this course, learners will explore search marketing, the search process, and the buying cycle. Also included is how to set up a successful PPC account, how to set and measure goals, and how to optimize keyword usage using a variety of strategies. Learners will then examine components of effective ads and landing pages, how to optimize ad targeting, and when to use search or display advertising. The course then delves into research and analysis considerations, such as report creation, improving quality score, and using A/B and multivariate ad testing. Course material is presented through the use of text, videos, games, and other engaging content.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 4
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) encompasses the practices and metrics of trying to increase a web site's ranking with search engines. This course will engage learners through a variety of assignments that span the history and technology of the World Wide Web. Students will learn how to leverage both content and technical features in order to increase ranking while also learning about the latest tools to measure performance. These aspects are then incorporated into real-world scenarios that challenge students to apply what they have learned.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Social Media Marketing
Using social media in marketing is practically a requirement in today's highly connected digital world. But it can be confusing and complex to dive into social media marketing without some foundation in the basics. This course focuses on teaching the principles, best practices, and strategies for incorporating social media into a marketing plan. The first module teaches the various ways that social media can be used for marketing, including defining a clear brand voice, improving reputation, and engaging with customers. The course then looks at the practical way marketers can incorporate social media activities into a focused marketing plan. Learners identify how to integrate their social media with mobile, a hub website, and email marketing. They also learn how to use strategic metrics for tracking success.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3.5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Web Analytics
This course is designed to help learners develop a solid understanding of the basic concepts and techniques that they will encounter as practitioners in the web analytics field. Learners in this course will expand their knowledge through games, videos, case studies, quizzes, and other engaging content. Topics of major concern that are discussed in Module 1 include a summary of web analytics concepts and important terms, along with the organizations and personnel who use web analytics. The course defines key performance indicators and discusses how they are chosen and implemented. A discussion of segmentation follows, with strategies for how to categorize website visitors. Students will also learn how to plan and assess website business strategies using web analytics. In Module 2, learners will explore reporting and dashboards as they relate to web analytics. Students will gain an understanding of how to plan for and design dashboards and how qualitative research offers deeper business insights. In addition, students will learn how to conduct split and multivariate testing, and implement web analytics best practices.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3.5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Editing and Proofreading for Business Writers
Writing well means following the rules so that you can best make yourself understood. We will review some basic grammar and look at correcting common mistakes that can make our writing harder to read. In this course we will review some basic grammar and using the parts of speech correctly in our writing.
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $450
Hours to Complete: 24
Access to Curriculum Time: 180 Days
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Certificate in Digital Marketing
This certificate in digital marketing is aligned with the Online Marketing Certified Professional (OMCP) standards to ensure that it is comprehensive and relevant. Digital marketing helps organizations promote and sell products and services through online marketing methods such as social media messaging, website ads, Facebook marketing campaigns, Google Adwords, and more. It's vital to develop a marketing strategy that keeps up with the technology. Courses in this certificate cover the strategic issues, marketing methods and tactics, industry terminology, and best practices. Each of the nine courses offer examples, videos from industry-leading practitioners, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material. Digital Marketing Strategy Content Marketing Social Media Marketing Marketing Automation Web Analytics Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Paid Search/Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC) Mobile Marketing Conversion Rate Optimization The Digital Marketing Certificate can help both current marketing professionals, and those wishing new career in digital marketing, with the necessary knowledge and skills. We recommend beginning with Digital Marketing Strategy first and then other courses can be taken in any order. Upon successful completion, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $549
Hours to Complete: 28
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
Accounting and Finance for Small Business
Accounting and Finance for Entrepreneurs
This course provides an introduction to key topics in accounting and finance for those involved in new ventures. It reviews financial accounting basics, including GAAP Principles and financial statements, and also covers key issues in finance, broadly defined as any financial or monetary activity that involves a company.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $129
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Finance 101 for Entrepreneurs
This completely online and self-paced one-module course utilizes Inc. Magazine's prize-winning editorial content to introduce basic concepts of finance, including startup financing; pricing; cash flow; and financial ratios. The focus is on providing practical, hands-on advice to entrepreneurs and small-business people, including video segments with analysis and commentary from industry-leading practitioners and subject matter experts. The course also offers real-world examples, how-to lists and advice, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material. Included with your course is a one (1) year complimentary subscription to Inc. Magazine ($19.99 value). Your subscription will start with the current issue. Inc. Magazine publishes 8 issues a year.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Accounting Fundamentals for Small Businesses
Following basic accounting principles is an essential and necessary part of any business, regardless of size. As a small business owner, it is crucial to recognize the importance of maintaining proper financial records. Accounting records help identify sources of revenue, monitor the progress of business operations, assist in identifying areas that need improvement, and aid in preparing accurate financial statements. This course will introduce you to fundamental accounting concepts and develop your ability to record and analyze business transactions, and prepare the four major financial statements.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Budgeting and Financial Analysis for Small Businesses
This course will introduce you to the budgeting process and financial analysis. In module one, you will develop your ability to prepare budgets, generate pro forma financial statements, and analyze budget variances. Module two will focus on analyzing the financial position of your business through financial ratio analysis, benchmarking, and break-even analysis.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Start Your Own Business in Bookkeeping Administration Professional
The purpose of this course is to give the student tools, information, and strategies to equip them in a way that will give them the best chance of success when starting a business. We will discuss topics such as risk, economics, the global market, ethics, legal considerations, organization, human resources, and marketing. As a student reads, completes practices and assignments, discusses with others, and takes assessments, he or she will gain a practical understanding of the components of a small business and the steps that one takes to create and establish that business, from the idea, to the business plan, to the strategies for helping that business to succeed and grow.
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $2,725
Hours to Complete: 440
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
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Legal Aspects of Small Business
Business Law for Entrepreneurs
When starting a new venture, understanding the relevant laws can make or break your success. This course covers the basics of business law for an entrepreneur. It reviews legal structures for a new venture, intellectual property, employment law, contracts, government regulation, and personal and real property.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $129
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Law for Small Businesses
Small business owners and entrepreneurs must have a working knowledge of many different fields, including the law. This course covers the basics of business law as it pertains to small businesses, franchises, and entrepreneurial endeavors. The topics considered include legal structures for new ventures, contracts, intellectual property rights, real property, employee rights, tax responsibilities, and product warranties and liabilities. While small business owners should be familiar with these issues, there is no substitute for having qualified legal counsel. The course also explores the relationship between a business and its legal representatives, how to find a small business lawyer, and at what stage legal counsel should be sought.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Human Resources and Leadership for Small Business
Leadership and Management for Entrepreneurs
This course explores the leadership and management issues entrepreneurs face as they create and establish successful new ventures. It reviews the key managerial roles of planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling and their application in entrepreneurial settings. Further, the course addresses self-management for the entrepreneur--how an entrepreneur can manage his or her own time and maintain a proper work-life balance.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $129
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Becoming a Better Leader
This completely online and self-paced one-module course utilizes Inc. Magazine's prize-winning editorial content to introduce basic concepts of business leadership, including communication and motivation; leading teams; leading virtual workers; and leading during times of change. The focus is on providing practical, hands-on advice to entrepreneurs and small-business people, including video segments with analysis and commentary from industry-leading practitioners and subject matter experts. The course also offers real-world examples, how-to lists and advice, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material. Included with your course is a one (1) year complimentary subscription to Inc. Magazine ($19.99 value). Your subscription will start with the current issue. Inc. Magazine publishes 8 issues a year.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Hiring, Managing and Developing Talent
This completely online and self-paced one-module course utilizes Inc. Magazine's prize-winning editorial content to introduce basic concepts of human resources management, including recruiting; onboarding; talent development; and company culture. The focus is on providing practical, hands-on advice to entrepreneurs and small-business people, including video segments with analysis and commentary from industry-leading practitioners and subject matter experts. The course also offers real-world examples, how-to lists and advice, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material. Included with your course is a one (1) year complimentary subscription to Inc. Magazine ($19.99 value). Your subscription will start with the current issue. Inc. Magazine publishes 8 issues a year.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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HR Fundamentals for Small Businesses
The people who make up your business are among your most valuable assets. Proper management of those human resources is critical for creating and sustaining a skilled and engaged workforce, developing a positive business culture, and generating a competitive advantage. Human resource personnel are involved in tasks like recruiting, selecting, compensating, training, developing, and disciplining employees. Who carries out these tasks varies depending on a business' size and organization. Large organizations may have a dedicated HR manager or even an entire HR department. In smaller businesses, on the other hand, HR responsibilities may be carried out by the CEO or business owner, delegated to staff, or outsourced. Regardless of whether they will be responsible for carrying out HR tasks themselves, small business owners should be aware of important human resource issues, options, and controversies. This course reviews key areas in human resource management, like crafting job descriptions, finding the right people for those jobs, fairly compensating employees, and responding to performance issues. We also survey important employment laws and some best practices for creating a workplace that is safe and healthy for employees. Experts provide commentary and share their personal experiences relating to common HR issues.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Leading and Managing Small Businesses
Small business leaders are responsible for inspiring employees to do their part to bring about the organization's goals. Good leaders must have a vision of where the business is going, possess strong communication skills, and be able to bring out the best in the people they lead to make that vision a reality. While the fundamentals of leadership and management are the same in large and small business settings, one or two bad leaders can more quickly have a detrimental impact on a small business. This course will prepare you to lead and manage employees in your organization, whether you are navigating through periods of change, growth, or stress. You will learn about some of the qualities and values shared by successful leaders, like decisiveness, adaptability, and humility, as well as common managerial challenges and techniques, strategies, and best practices to overcome those obstacles.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Tax, Bookkeeping, and Accounting
Advanced Income Tax Preparation Level 1
Students will study Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC or EITC), clergy income and investments. The course continues with a more in-depth study of employee business expenses, Schedules C and E, at-risk rules and passive activities. Upon completion the student will be able to assist individual taxpayers with more in-dept.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $499
Hours to Complete: 30
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
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Advanced Income Tax Preparation Level 2
Students will study more specialized areas of taxation in this course. This course covers mended returns, special needs and concerns for seniors, tax issues for high income taxpayers, net operating losses, special issues for Schedule D, tax issues for divorced and separated taxpayers, tax planning, savings strategies, updates, guidance in responding to the IRS, state returns and nonresident alien returns. Upon completion of this course a student will be able to complete specialized individual returns. Prior tax knowledge and experience are required for this course.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $499
Hours to Complete: 30
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
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Ethics Seminar CE courses
Upon completion of this course you will be able to describe professional responsibilities in tax return preparation, determine the actions necessary to maintain client confidentiality and identify the requirements to practice before the IRS. This seminar qualifies for EA CE.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $65
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 1 Month
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Small Business Income Tax Course Level 1
Students explore how to start a business and choose a business entity. The course expands on business organization in areas such as record keeping, receipts, expenses, and income. Topics for this course include sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, s-corporations, payroll taxes, retirement plans, and dispositions. This course presents an introduction to small business returns. Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to start preparing the less complex business returns.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $499
Hours to Complete: 30
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
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Small Business Income Tax Course Level 2
Recent economic changes make it more important than ever for taxpayers to claim all of the credits and deductions due to them and to pay no more than the exact amount of taxes they owe. As a result, qualified tax preparers are in high demand.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $499
Hours to Complete: 30
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
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Chartered Tax Professional Business Package
A Chartered Tax Professional (CTP) is someone who has completed a series of 5 federal tax courses in individual and small business income tax preparation. This nationally recognized certificate program enables students to start working and earning money as a tax preparer while completing coursework toward the CTP credential! With the talk of more requirements for tax preparers, many preparers have decided to work towards becoming an IRS Enrolled Agent (EA), the most distinguished credential in the tax industry. The CTP is the perfect career path for the EA!
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $2,324
Hours to Complete: 190
Access to Curriculum Time: 18 Months
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Chartered Tax Professional Career Package
The Chartered Tax Professional (CTP) designation is the undisputed professional credential for persons who typically advise clients on income tax situations. After completing this comprehensive program, certificates will be prepared to handle almost any individual and small business income tax situation encountered. Candidates must successfully complete a series of five, computer-administered courses in income tax preparation. All courses are offered via the Internet and can be completed anywhere, anytime-24/7 – instructor support is included with each module. Each module consists of ten 3-hour lessons and can be completed in 5-10 weeks (one or two lessons per week).
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $2,199
Hours to Complete: 180
Access to Curriculum Time: 18 Months
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Intuit QuickBooks Online Plus
In this course, you will learn how to use QuickBooks Online Plus by completing two monthly accounting cycles. In the first lessons, accounting for selling service items will be covered. In later lessons, both service items and inventory items that are sold will be covered. Preparing payroll and creating a new company will also be included. Prior to taking this course, you should be familiar with the accounting cycle and how it is related to a business. While no prior knowledge of QuickBooks Online is required, it will be beneficial to have an understanding of accounting principles.
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $999
Hours to Complete: 100
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
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