UPDATED 2024: As Lion Industries looks into marketing strategies for increasing their annual sales, you will have the opportunity to watch an internal company audit unfold. And with a careful eye toward internal challenges, you will gain critical knowledge of what it takes to invest in the long-term success of an organization. Course Type: Business Simulation. Worth 4 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).

UPDATED 2024: When it comes to factors that disrupt foreign economies, you might think of exchange rates or other financial factors. But did you know terrorism is one of the most impactful disruptors to global trade? In fact, there are many factors that can negatively affect foreign economies. In Outside Influences, you will have the opportunity to travel abroad with members of Central Product’s international team to research other businesses in foreign markets. And through this venture, you will learn how outside factors play into the global economy and how a business can work to make the most of difficult situations. Course Type: Business Simulation. Worth 2 PDCs (SHRM).

While demonstrating personal and business applications of important topics, this course covers the fundamentals of time value of money. So, learners have the chance to look at interest rates, present value, future value, and internal rate of return. And by looking at specific, real-world examples like vacation savings and the cost of college or university, they’ll see how the time value of money is at the heart of most financial decision making. But more so, why it’s important for business professionals to recognize exactly how it works. Course Type: Video. Worth 3 PDCs (SHRM) and 2 CEUs (HRCI Business Credit).