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Guide to Commercial Real Estate and Finance
Format
Self-Study
Course Level
Overview
CPE Credits
9 Credits: Finance
Course Description
This course is designed to train both working CPAs and financial personnel to develop the knowledge and techniques required to review a variety of financing activities for businesses, residential and commercial real estate. The course focuses on the basic principles, concepts, terminology, and instruments to learn and understand how to review a client loan, and delineate the various services available in the financial community. It introduces the reader to the available commercial financial services, specialized terminology and financial documents and instruments used in these services. Various business financing sources are covered. The course covers commercial real estate financing, analyzing income property loans, and the lending processes involved. A sample analysis for purchasing apartments, shopping centers, office-warehouses, general offices, and other types of real estate ventures are included in this chapter.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Chapter 1
- Recognize characteristics of underwriting and identify federal lending laws;
- Identify goals for federal loan programs and factors in determining FICO scores;
Chapter 2
- Recognize some of the many regulations and lending laws;
- Identify the sources, classifications, and types of mortgages;
Chapter 3
- Recognize the factors to be considered in investment decision, including valuation methods and the risk-return tradeoffs;
Chapter 4
- Recognize the main categories of commercial finance;
- Identify benefits from factoring and leasing;
- Identify investment criteria for venture capital firms;
Chapter 5
- Identify different income producing commercial properties;
- Recognize how lenders evaluate commercial real estate properties and borrowers;
- Recognize lending rule-of-thumbs and terminology;
- Recognize how property types affect value, risk, and financing sources; and
- Identify aspects and steps of the construction loan process.
Course Specifics
3178029
May 15, 2023
There are no prerequisites.
None
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Compliance Information
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CFP Notice: Not all courses that qualify for CFP® credit are registered by Western CPE. If a course does not have a CFP registration number in the compliance section, the continuing education will need to be individually reported with the CFP Board. For more information on the reporting process, required documentation, processing fee, etc., contact the CFP Board. CFP Professionals must take each course in it’s entirety, the CFP Board DOES NOT accept partial credits for courses.
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