UPDATED 2024: Leadership comes in many different forms, but not all are equal. Good and effective leadership has the potential to take an organization to amazing heights and deliver fantastic opportunities. But poor, underdeveloped and ethically lacking leadership can destroy a company from within. So, it’s up to individuals to seek out and understand the characteristics of effective leadership. That way, they can steer their organizations in the right direction. This course focuses on different situations, theories, and examples to help learners develop a deeper insight into the topic of leadership, offering the chance for personal and professional growth. Course Type: Business Simulation. Worth 10 RCHs (APA).

UPDATED 2024: Foreign Exchange looks at the currency market to help make an overwhelming topic more understandable. Alongside members of Central Products’ International Accounting department, you will break down the currency trade market while exploring exchange rates and risks associated with various types of currency trading to get a better grasp on a difficult but important subject. Course Type: Business Simulation. Worth 2 PDCs (SHRM).

For any individual business professional, understanding the importance of making ethically upstanding decisions is almost as important as the decision itself. Because, without understanding why something is the right thing to do, there’s no guarantee that leaders and managers will act for the betterment of the company and employees. Ethical Intelligence is a course designed to help raise your awareness of different contemporary situations that demand moral insight and conviction. Through observation of multiple case studies, you will have the opportunity to witness how unethical behavior and low ethical intelligence contribute to corporate failure. Course Type: Video. Worth 5 CPE Credits (CPA/NASBA).

This course is the final course in the 8 - course series on financial reporting and analysis offered by PRATTedu. In this single video course , Professor Pratt first defines earnings management and then introduces and illustrates the two basic forms: real earnings management and accruals earnings management. He illustrates each form, provides a number of examples, discusses whether they are appropriate and then creates a framework for accruals earnings management that identifies and relates the four general areas (materiality, disclosure, classification and measurement) where it is practiced. The video concludes with a thorough discussion of why earnings management is practiced and common strategies used by companies. Throughout the video real - world financial statements and footnotes are analyzed. Companies featured include General Electric, Merck, Harley Davidson, Tesla, AT&T, Volkswagen, Walt Disney and others. Course Type: Video. Worth 2 Technical CPE Credits (CPA/NASBA).