Education

Proven Ways to Trim Expenses and Free Up Cash

SEMA’s April 2 webinar, "Job Costing Systems That Will Boost Your Cash Flow," will provide useful tips on how to effectively monitor and evaluate your overall operating expenses for your business through job costing. SEMA Accounting Manager Tom Aiono will discuss the basics of job costing and other simple tools that you can use now to manage the cash flow in your company.

Webinars

As a principal of a SEMA-member company, the SEMA webinar series provides you with the information you need in brief, one-hour programs. With on-demand information, you can access a range of topics from the SEMA archived webinars or tune into the live broadcasts with an interactive Q & A session with the featured industry presenter. You don’t even have to leave your desk or office to participate! Register today.

With topics ranging from economic outlook to sales to aftermarket industry trends, you can participate live or download the webinar that is specific to your company’s needs.

Recession Survival Series - Members Only

The economy is in crisis. Businesses are losing ground; some are failing. Now is the time to act, to learn how to match your team’s skills and technology to the requirements of the day. In response to the prevailing crisis, SEMA is launching a series of web-based seminars over the next six weeks to provide immediate help to its member companies.

This content is for SEMA Members only.

Recession Survival Series

Protecting Your Finances in a Volatile Economy - Recession Survial Series

About this product:

Thursday, March 19, 2009, Presented by: Matthew Egan, VP & Senior Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch

Understand the market and how to survive in it. Matthew Egan provides an investment-focused presentation covering topics such as preserving your principal, learning what kind of dividend income you can expect, finding attainable and sustainable returns and what should you do with cash. What does your investment portfolio look like? Your finances of 2007 won’t be made whole again by doing nothing, and you can’t simply hope for a recovery. This critically important webinar will teach you what you need to do to protect yourself and your business.

SEMA Members may get this content for free!

Regular Price:

$19.95

SEMA Education Institute (SEI)

Education

SEMA recognizes how integral training is to its members’ success and has invested in the development of a world-class, web-based learning enterprise. That learning enterprise is the SEI, and its goal is to provide members with programs and information that will maximize business results. The SEI has partnered with software developers, subject-matter experts and professional educators to build the best learning program possible. The four areas that the SEI will focus its efforts on are:

Career Development and Training

Education

Learn from world-renowned experts and speakers with real-world success by participating in the SEMA educational program. Whether through live seminars or web-based conferences, SEMA’s professional development program touches on hot topics specific to the automotive specialty-equipment industry. From online marketing and intellectual property rights (IPR) to working with WDs and advertising in automotive publications, the topics are uniquely SEMA.

Reimbursements For Your Employees' Student Loans

You might not realize this, but your membership in SEMA may just help your employees pay down their student loans. The SEMA Loan Forgiveness Program provides student loan reimbursement to qualified employees in the amount of $1,000. To find out more about the program, please visit www.sema.org/scholarships.

Continuing Education and SEMA Scholarships

You and your employees can receive financial assistance to help with the cost of attending a trade school or university. Through the SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund, SEMA has awarded more than $1 million to more than 700 students since 1984. Whether you’re training for a technical position in the industry or pursuing a management position in the field, you may qualify for this valuable SEMA program.

Automotive Professionals Earn SEMA Custom Wheel and Tire Specialist Credentials

The Exam (Z5) was developed by a panel of industry experts familiar with the specific test topic. The Z5 exam was introduced in 2004. The test is job-related and designed to measure a candidate’s competency and real-world skills.

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