Self-Paced Tutorials

Accounting Fundamentals This course covers all the bases, from writing checks to preparing an income statement and closing out accounts at the end of each fiscal period. Whether you’re a sole proprietor looking to manage your business finances, or you simply want to gain an understanding of accounting basics for career advancement or for personal use, this course will give you a solid foundation in financial matters.

Personal Finance This course will prepare you for a lifetime of worthwhile personal financial planning. Learn to create and use a budget, borrow and invest wisely, make intelligent decisions about insurance, and plan for your financial future. Develop a retirement savings plan, and you will be better prepared to make large purchases and plan for taxes. Learn the essentials of household bookkeeping, record-keeping requirements, and much, much more.

Where Does All My Money Go? This course will teach you the very basics of how to get control of your finances rather than letting them control you. Learn how to fund your dreams and how to save money for everything from emergencies to vacations.

Introduction To Stock Options This course will give you a look under the hood of option pricing, so you understand what contributes to option value. Understand why some options are overpriced and some are underpriced - and be able to tell the difference before you trade. Keys To Successful Money Management In this course, a certified financial planner will walk you through the steps you need to take in order to achieve true financial success. Become comfortable with the broad array of investment choices available to you right now, and discover the best ways to acquire and accumulate both cash and real property.

Learn To Buy And Sell On eBay Learn how to create titles that get noticed, how to craft advertising copy that sells items quickly and for top dollar, and how to create and upload photos of the items you are selling. Learn how to safely conduct financial transactions, how to accept credit card payments, and how to pack and ship any item hassle-free.

Real Estate Investing Start developing a plan for your own investing efforts based on proven methods used every day by full-time, professional real estate investors. Learn how to invest in foreclosures, manage a rehab project, and build your team of real estate professionals (title officers, lawyers, accountants, mortgage brokers, appraisers, and more).

Stocks, Bonds, And Investing: Oh, My! This course will not only teach you about the stock markets, 401k plans, and retirement, but it will also address personal financial issues that are often ignored, but essential, to your success as an investor. Each lesson explains these concepts in detail, so you understand how and why things work in the investment world. Business Finance For Non-Finance Personnel Using practical explanations and real-life examples, this course will show you how money flows through a typical business. Learn the basics of how a business operates, including how to develop successful business strategies and how to use financial statements to make better business decisions. Whether you’re an employee, sales executive, supervisor, or manager, this course will help you understand basic financial information and use that information to make decisions that will positively affect your company’s financial situation.

Probate Law And Estate Planning (Self-Paced Tutorial) This course will help you navigate the laws of probate processes and estate planning. You’ll learn how various types of ownership affect the passage of property at owner death, with or without a will. You will also learn about the administration and taxation of estates as well as basic requirements for trusts, wills and guardianships.

Persuasive Communication (Self-Paced Tutorial) Persuasive communication is essential not only for selling the products or services of the business but for obtaining financing and running daily operations. This course will provide you with the opportunity to gain confidence and improve their communication skills. Even the most skilled communicator can always learn additional techniques for success.

Collaborative Problem-Solving (Self-Paced Tutorial) The Collaborative Problem Solving course will help you become familiar with the basics of working in teams and why teamwork is important to our professional and personal success. This course will provide you with essential strategies for solving problems and challenges that arise during collaboration, and provide you with ways to move forward toward achieving a common goal. Beginning Conversational French (Self-Paced Tutorial) This course has been carefully crafted to ensure you will have no trouble pronouncing French words correctly. After the introduction and basic conversation lessons, learn what to say at the airport. From the airport, learn how to talk about transportation. After you have settled into your hotel, the course also covers how to communicate in restaurants.

Conversational Japanese (Self-Paced Tutorial) Throughout this course, gain cultural knowledge and learn useful conversational phrases and vocabulary words particular to a specific area of travel. In each lesson, find helpful audio aids and Japanese words written in the English alphabet. This technique will allow you to bypass one of the biggest obstacles for most beginners of Japanese: the letter system.

Discover Sign Language (Self-Paced Tutorial) Throughout this course, learn by watching videos that demonstrate how to make the signs and how to incorporate facial expressions to communicate in this beautiful language. This course is taught using the best practices of the industry with a minimum of audio support. Gain an introduction to the world of the Deaf culture and explore topics such as lipreading, baby signs, and the career of interpreting. Instant Italian (Self-Paced Tutorial) This dynamic course will teach you how to express yourself comfortably in Italian. Learn practical, everyday words. Read, hear, and practice dialogues based on typical situations that you’re likely to encounter if you plan to vacation in Italy. The dialogues and follow-up exercises of each lesson will teach you to communicate in Italian in a wide variety of settings. This course will make it simple to master your pronunciation of Italian.

Speed Spanish II (Self-Paced Tutorial) This Speed Spanish course is unlike any other Spanish class you’ve ever taken. See words, hear them pronounced properly, and be granted plenty of opportunities to practice your pronunciation. Learn several clever recipes that you can use to glue the words together into sentences.

What Makes the Self-Paced Tutorial option different? The content of the Fundamentals course and its SPT counterpart are the same, but the new SPT version offers greater flexibility to students. Here’s how: Self-Paced Tutorial 1. All content is made available to students immediately after they register 2. Students can work through the content at their own speed within the course term 3. Course must be completed in three months Instructor-Led Course 1. Content is released one module at a time throughout the course term 2. Students learn on an instructor-led track that follows bi-weekly lesson plans 3. Course must be completed in six weeks Available Online ANYTIME! Starting at $119 Check ed2go.com/santafecollege for start dates. Additional classes online!