HRCI (SHRM) Approved Courses

Strategic Management Credit:

History of Management Thought (12 credits)
Marketing for Results (20 credits)
Financial Accountability (30 credits)

Strategic Management and International Credit:

International Business (24 credits)
International Finance (24 credits)

General Credit:

Management for Results (22 credits)
Human Resources and Org. Behavior (24 credits)
Quant. Methods for Decision Analysis (20 credits)

All of these courses are priced on a CE credit basis at only $17.50 per credit and include a free orientation course.

History of Management Thought
	With the potential for explosive growth or failure on the company horizon, Central’s CEO, Robert Powers is looking for wisdom. In this course, he will ask you and your training partner, Ken Zylstra, to go on a quest to uncover Central’s past. You will be assigned a series of interviews with former employees to unearth secrets about the family business. From their wisdom and experience you will learn about such things as, the ancient Art of War to today's Six Sigma, from Scientific Management to the Balanced Scorecard and Sustainability. Designed to make you re-think your own process, you will confront your own ability to plan, organize, control and lead.
Qualifies for 12 HRCI Strategic Management CE Credits. Tuition is only $210 payable using PayPal. View Full Course Description Get started now!

Marketing for Results
	This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to manage the marketing function in a 21st century organization. It addresses the common marketing functions of industry and market research, customer research, product and service design, pricing, creating awareness, distribution, and presentation. This course has ten modules each focusing on a unique topic with unique objectives for your knowledge, skill and values.
Qualifies for 20 HRCI Strategic Management CE Credits. Tuition is only $350 payable using PayPal. View Full Course Description Get started now!

Financial Accountability
	You will be asked to add up the company’s vending machine money. While the money made on chips and soda may seem insignificant in terms of Central’s revenue, the handling of the finances is no small matter. The machine's income goes toward a beneficiary fund for needy Central employees, but the lack of a system led to tremendous conflict last year. Setting up the system will push you to apply financial and managerial accounting concepts including: financial statements, journal entries, costing, budgeting, variance, and responsibility. The objective of this course in financial accountability is to present participants with basic skills and terminology and then allow them to apply these skills in practical critical thinking exercises, decision situations and other higher levels of learning. Topics included both financial accounting concepts and managerial accounting concepts. The course begins with an understanding of the various financial statements and the basic accounting process. A more in-depth coverage of assets, liabilities, equities, revenues and expenses precedes a discussion of financial statement analysis. The course transitions into foundational managerial accounting concepts including cost behavior, budgets, performance evaluation, differential analysis and capital budgeting. This course has fifteen modules, each focusing on a unique topic with unique objectives for your knowledge, skill and values.
Qualifies for 30 HRCI Strategic Management CE Credits. Tuition is only $525 payable using PayPal. View Full Course Description Get started now!

International Business
	This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an international business organization, whether a full company, a department, division or other strategic business unit within an existing organization. It addresses the common international business functions of market analysis, exporting, sourcing, direct foreign investment, and cross-cultural management. This course has twelve modules each focusing on a unique topic with unique objectives for your knowledge, skill and values.
Qualifies for 24 HRCI Strategic Management CE Credits & 24 International CE Credits. Tuition is only $420 payable using PayPal. View Full Course Description Get started now!

International Finance
	This course provides the student the knowledge and skills needed to manage the complexities of financing exports, imports, and direct foreign investment. Primary topics include the nature or behavior of foreign exchange rates and managing the impacts of exchange rates on short-term and long-term international business activities and performance objectives. This course has twelve modules each focusing on a unique topic with unique objectives for your knowledge, skill and values.
Qualifies for 24 HRCI Strategic Management CE Credits & 24 International CE Credits. Tuition is only $420 payable using PayPal. View Full Course Description Get started now!

Management for Results
	What is Management? Your assumptions will be overturned as you navigate through this course. Learn to manage yourself first as you take on challenging tasks such as a building project using the principles of the Critical Path Method (CPM) and Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT). Your quantitative analysis and decision-making skills will be put to the test as the company counts on your business intelligence and statistical forecasting. This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an organization, whether a full company, a department, a division, or other strategic business unit within an existing organization by getting the right things done through teams of people. It addresses the common management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. This course has eleven modules, each focusing on a unique topic with unique objectives for your knowledge, skill, and values.
Qualifies for 22 HRCI General CE Credits. Tuition is only $385 payable using PayPal. View Full Course Description Get started now!

Human Resources and Organizational Behavior
	This course will examine personal and professional issues related to modern human resource management (HRM). From the stages of pre-employment through termination, this course lays the essential framework for employment. Topics covered include: training and development, motivation, teamwork, compensation, performance, labor relations, safety, laws, and cultural concerns. This course has twelve modules each focusing on a unique topic with unique objectives for your knowledge, skill and values.
Qualifies for 24 HRCI General CE Credits. Tuition is only $420 payable using PayPal. View Full Course Description Get started now!

Quantitative Methods for Decision Analysis
	This course provides the student with the concepts, methods and tools for the application of logical and quantitative analysis to business decision making and problem solving. It familiarizes the student with a wide range of software and other classical and contemporary resources related to decision and problem analysis, including basics of logic and decision making, principles of optimization, probabilistic distributions, linear programming, simplex, queuing and transportation problems, break even analysis, inventory management, forecasting and simulation. The course highlights the benefits as well as the limits of quantitative analysis in a real-world context.
Qualifies for 20 HRCI General CE Credits. Tuition is only $350 payable using PayPal. View Full Course Description Get started now!