Exclusive Opportunity to Earn the CCE Designation
At the conclusion of the program, the standard application process is waived and participants are given the opportunity to take the Certified Credit Executive® (CCE) exam. All participants are eligible, even those without the typical years of experience or roadmap points.
The exam must be completed on one of the national test dates and successfully passed to earn the CCE designation within one year of completion of the program.
The GSCFM Curriculum
The GSCFM program focuses on four essential business and professional growth disciplines:
- Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
- Legal Environment of Credit
- Advanced Negotiations
- Leadership
Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
The objective of this course is to make credit professionals better aware of the information contained in a firm’s financial statements and how to analyze it. An improved awareness equates to improved knowledge about credit risk. Skills employed include comprehension, analysis, critical thinking, computational, reasoning, synthesis of information, evaluation and communication. Through a combination of lectures, cases analyses, and exercises, the course will emphasize analysis and interpretation of cash flows, financial ratios, accounting fraud andirregularities–to assess a firm’s liquidity.
Brian R. Lazarus, CPA, CGMA, MBA, brings decades of professional experience spanning various levels of accounting, management, and entrepreneurship. He has also taught Accounting and Business courses in both online and traditional classroom settings. His career journey includes roles from Credit Analyst at a Fortune 300 company to Controller and Director of Accounting. He also successfully established and managed his own consulting practice. Academically, he holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, an MBA, and a Graduate Certificate in E-Commerce. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), equivalent to a Chartered Accountant (CA) in many other countries. Professor Lazarus is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Accounting Association, and he serves on the Members in Education Committee of the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants (MACPA), having previously contributed to MACPA’s Financial Literacy Advisory Board.
Professor Lazarus’s commitment extends to community involvement and educational excellence. He has volunteered as a judge for Future Business Leaders of America competitions and dedicated his time to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Maryland. He has been repeatedly honored for his student-centric approach and teaching prowess, most notably with the prestigious NISOD (National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development) Excellence Award, a recognition bestowed by his peers. Furthermore, his exceptional service to the citizens of Baltimore earned him citations from both the Mayor and Comptroller of Baltimore City. His expertise in online education is further highlighted by his distinguished QM (Quality Matters) certification, a testament to his work in designing high-quality digital learning experiences.
In collaboration with his wife, also a CPA, Professor Lazarus has co-created a highly successful series of 26 mini-lectures on various accounting and finance topics. These acclaimed lectures, housed on YouTube, have garnered over 2 million views and have benefited tens of thousands of students worldwide. Outside of his professional endeavors, Professor Lazarus is an avid reader with a particular interest in World War II movies and books. He enjoys playing chess with his daughter and reading to his young son. He resides in Maryland with his wife and two children.
Legal Environment of Credit
Comprehensive knowledge of business laws specific to the field of credit is critically important to each decision today’s credit executive makes on a daily basis. This intensive course will focus on a broad range of advanced legal issues affecting the credit decision. This course will encompass a combination of lectures, readings, case studies and interactive discussions to enable participants to increase their knowledge of the complex issues in corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, contracts, bankruptcies, antitrust and negotiable instruments as they impact credit decisions.
Jason Torf is a bankruptcy and creditors’ rights partner in the law firm Tucker Ellis LLP. Jason regularly represents clients in helping them solve their problems with troubled customers, both in bankruptcy proceedings and otherwise. Jason is a frequent speaker to NACM and other credit groups to help them understand practical steps their companies can utilize to minimize risk and maximize their recovery when dealing with a financially troubled customer. For more information about Jason’s background and practice, please visit https://www.tuckerellis.com/people/jason-m-torf/.
Advanced Negotiations
All business dealings and transactions, whether small in dollar amounts or in the number of products purchased and sold, result from underlying negotiations which are generally memorialized in written agreements between the parties. To create effective agreements, a mastery of negotiation skills is essential, and is attained through practice. This course, though the use of readings, class lectures and negotiating problem-solving exercises, will help participants better understand and master negotiation skills.
Francis Eberle, PhD, is leadership and organizational advisor, speaker and author. Francis believes that people development is business development. At Price Associates he coaches leaders, and teams to help them see things they may not see themselves, in particular those who may have run into a block or just want to up their game.
After spending more than 25 years as an executive, Francis is uniquely positioned to help individuals and organizations. He has successfully partnered with leaders and teams to improve their skills, plan strategically, solve complex problems, and grow financial and programmatic resources. He is also a facilitator and coach for The Complete Leader program.
Francis is an author, (his most recent book is Connected Leadership; Engage your workforce to lead themselves), as well as of blogs, white papers, and policy briefs. He has presented widely on leadership, organizational development, and education policy. He received a Bachelor of Science from Boston University, a Masters from the University of Connecticut, a PhD from Lesley University and a Harvard Business School Executive Management program graduate. He is certified as a coach and facilitator for a suit of psychological assessment tools, and virtual facilitation.
Leadership
Leaders set the tone for the organization. Ultimately, great leadership is a progression. High-performing leaders are on a continuing journey to understand themselves and their employees better, in order to get the best out of everyone. Through readings, case studies and class lectures, this course will help participants increase their leadership skills, improve their ability to be persuasive leaders and gain fresh insights into Emotional Intelligence and how to grow it as a leader. Participants will also complete a Behavioral Intelligence Profile and discuss the results during the program.
Francis Eberle, PhD, is leadership and organizational advisor, speaker and author. Francis believes that people development is business development. At Price Associates he coaches leaders, and teams to help them see things they may not see themselves, in particular those who may have run into a block or just want to up their game.
After spending more than 25 years as an executive, Francis is uniquely positioned to help individuals and organizations. He has successfully partnered with leaders and teams to improve their skills, plan strategically, solve complex problems, and grow financial and programmatic resources. He is also a facilitator and coach for The Complete Leader program.
Francis is an author, (his most recent book is Connected Leadership; Engage your workforce to lead themselves), as well as of blogs, white papers, and policy briefs. He has presented widely on leadership, organizational development, and education policy. He received a Bachelor of Science from Boston University, a Masters from the University of Connecticut, a PhD from Lesley University and a Harvard Business School Executive Management program graduate. He is certified as a coach and facilitator for a suit of psychological assessment tools, and virtual facilitation.
New this year, NACM and FCIB (The Finance Credit & International Business Association) are teaming up to offer a spectacular opportunity to complete both the GSCFM program and the International Credit & Risk ManagementSM (ICRM) online course for one discounted, bundled rate. This presents the chance to earn NACM’s Certified Credit Executive ® (CCE) designation and FCIB’s Certified International Credit Professional (CICP) designation… no additional forms or costs.
After completing the GSCFM program, move on to the ICRM online course with fellow students also choosing to enhance their professional skills and network even further. More education, more professional connections and more achievements… all in one valuable tuition. Why choose one, when you can have both!
