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Analyzing Financial Statements*
Provides the skills needed to conduct a comprehensive and effective financial analysis of a business borrower and clearly illustrates each step required in reviewing the financial statements provided by loan applicants to determine whether a borrower can repay debt to your institution. It explains essential concepts between the different types of businesses, legal structures of businesses, sizes of business, and other major influences that affect cash flow cycles. Realistic case studies and practical application exercises provide hands-on experience in analyzing income statements, balance sheets, and tax forms.

$105

Banking & Finance Terminology
A Comprehensive A to Z Guide of the Language
of Banking
This guide helps you read with greater comprehension and write with greater authority in such areas as: accounting, asset and liability management, commercial and consumer lending, credit cards, economics and global banking, human resources management and more. Also includes appendices on Industry acronyms and abbreviations, Key performance ratios, Economic indicators, Federal Reserve regulations and Internet addresses of interest to bankers.

$ 65

Commercial Lending*
Presents the fundamentals of commercial loan origination and is an ideal course for new hires and internal candidates for a lending position.  It is designed to teach students the skills they need to evaluate business loan applications and to document loans correctly when they have been approved.  The course is intended to give students a foundation of important concepts and processes of the commercial lending relationship.  The complete commercial lending process is explained with case studies, examples and illustrations, including over 90 exhibits.

$126

Consumer Lending
This comprehensive overview of the consumer lending business covers the essentials about closed-end loans, direct and indirect lending, and open-end credit products. You will trace the consumer lending process from developing and taking loan applications to collection and recovery. Reviews the credit investigation process and how loan decisions are made. You will develop a greater understanding for client relationship building and the importance of consumer regulations. Other topics include:  the loan application generating process, how effective marketing increases loan outstandings and application volume, consumer loan information sources and the credit verification process, how the five C's of credit are used in credit evaluation and decision making, factors affecting loan pricing and loan structuring, loan documentation, and laws and regulations important to the lending process.

$105

Economics: Fundamentals for Financial Services Providers
Introduces economic principles with a focus on how those principles relate to the financial services industry. It provides students with an understanding of economic principles necessary to interpret economic news, apply economic principles to their work, and appreciate the many ways economics affects their lives.  The AIB course explains macroeconomic principles with a focus on how those principles relate to the financial services industry.  It will help students interpret economic news and apply economic principles to their work. Most applications in the text apply to the financial services industry.

$110

Introduction to Mortgage Lending
Mortgage lending by America's banks is one of the greatest success stories in the history of financial services. Particularly in the area of home mortgage lending, the creativity of our country's financial services sector has delivered enormous benefits to the average American.  As a result, our county has a homeownership rate among the highest in the world.  And our banking industry, in the course of providing credit to homeowners, has created jobs for thousands of loan officers, underwriters, loan processors, and loan servicing professionals.  Both banks and their customers have benefited greatly from the innovation and growth in the mortgage lending sector. 

$ 96

Law and Banking
Your legal aid for the fundamentals of banking law, this highly informative, revised and up-to-date, Law and Banking textbook outlines and illustrates in plain English how laws affect the business of banking. You will learn the fundamentals of banking law from the point of view of the banking functions and employees who serve customers. Some topics include:  the sources of U.S. banking law and the judiciary's and regulatory agencies' role; the major torts and crimes that affect the banking industry; customer relationships: individuals, sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, government agencies, limited liability companies, estates, and trusts; property: acquisition, transfer and ownership, and security interests Negotiable instruments: their requirements under the UCC and other laws; deposits: the laws and regulations that protect bank deposits and depositors

$ 96

Marketing Financial Services
Marketing Financial Services provides a thorough immersion in marketing concepts and activities related to the special requirements of the marketing of financial services.  It is a how-to guide that takes a marketer from the basic understanding of marketing through the steps necessary to integrate and grow marketing within a bank's organizational structure.  The text is heavy on examples and provides clear explanations of such vital topics as marketing research and marketing information systems, developing situation analyses, segmenting markets, evaluating the return on investment for marketing, and creating and implementing promotion strategies, and much, much more.  Excellent for the beginning marketer, seasoned bankers new to marketing, and experienced marketers new to banking.

$ 91

Money & Banking
Explores the important function of money in our modern economy, and the pivotal role of the banking system; a great reference for the basic functions of  money, markets, and financial systems; provides well constructed chapters with content bankers need to know and features to make learning easy.  Content topics include:  basic functions of money, evolution of money in society, types of money and payment devices, money supply, concepts and measurement, how banks create money, financial institutions in the United States, banks as business firms, banks and the payments system, federal reserve's function, responsibilities of bank regulators, bank legislation and regulation, economic policy and the role of banks, banking and international trade.

$105

Principles of Banking
Newly revised and in its 9th edition, Principles of Banking provides immediately useful banking knowledge, as well as the foundation for new learning and enhanced career opportunities.  Recognized as the most comprehensive introduction to the banking industry for over 40 years, AIB Principles of Banking presents an overview of the fundamentals of banking, along with contemporary issues and developments in the industry today.  And, it is the only Principles of Banking course that is accepted for credit towards AIB Diplomas and Certificates.  ABA research on job competencies determined that the content has direct applicability to a broad range of banking positions - from a Customer Service Representative to a Consumer Lending Manager.

$ 91

Quick Reference Guide to Banking Regulations, Seventh Edition
This guide offers you a clear path to compliance, with one-page, jargon-free briefings on major banking laws and regulations. Whether you're a banker, bank director, attorney or consultant, the Guide will be your accurate, plain-English resource on more than 30 laws and regs - from AA to Z.  This guide covers all the legal and regulatory changes through June 2005, including the new Check 21 law and recently revised Community Reinvestment Act rules. It provides overviews of each major banking law and regulation, includes a glossary of relevant compliance terms, and provides a calendar of key compliance deadlines.

Reference Guide to Regulatory Compliance
(not associated w/any course)
This guide is an ideal resource for compliance managers, department managers and staff, product managers and retail branch banking managers. And it is a recommended study resource for individuals preparing for the Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager Exam (CRCM).   The Guide covers federal regulations, consumer legislation and all the rules you need to know to meet the demands of today's compliance functions: Deposits, Lending, Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering, Bank Operations, Community Reinvestment Act/Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, Privacy, Securities, Insurance, and Other Financial Services, and much more. The Guide contains pertinent regulatory citations, suggestions on setting up a compliance risk management program and sample consumer disclosures. For those pursuing the CRCM designation, it also includes self-study and review questions and answers, and a cross-reference of book section titles and CRCM exam topics.

$320

Today's Teller: Developing Basic Skills
For most of your bank's customers, your tellers are the bank.  The vast majority of business done in a bank branch is done through tellers.  Providing top-notch training to tellers is a sure way to improve your business.  ABA's Today’s Teller: Developing Basic Skills, revised in 2008, is a top-notch training tool and clearly explains the basics of being a high-performing teller: the role of the teller in the business of banking, how to handle checks and process transactions, techniques for unerringly handling cash and balancing cash at the end of the day, ways to provide superb customer service -- including ways to explain how federal regulations affect your customers -- a summary of popular bank products that will improve the teller's ability to cross-sell products, and how to behave during a robbery, kidnapping, or bomb threat or when confronted with a con artist.  You'll also understand the teller's role in enhancing the bank's profitability, and distinguishing it from the competition.  Many useful exhibits illustrate types of checks, counterfeit currency, endorsement standards, substitute checks, Suspicious Activity Report and Currency Transaction Report forms, and more.

$ 75

Trust Basics: An Introduction to the Products & Services of the Trust Industry
In the high-stakes world of trust management, success belongs to the best trained—and Trust Basics is the foundational course for trust professionals in banks. Trust Basics will help new trust professionals understand the fundamentals of the trust business. Trust Basics will also help professionals in the trust business learn more about their jobs, communicate the advantages that bank trust departments offer their customers, and guide their customers through the process of establishing a trust.  Reader friendly and non-technical in style, Trust Basics gives you a step-by-step overview of trust departments, types of trusts, delivery of trust services, administering and settling estates, and challenges facing the trust industry.  Many real-life anecdotes and examples illustrate everyday situations to important principles of trust management.

$ 96