Illumeo is proud to announce the launch of its online Audit Skills Training Program . It is a progressive learning curriculum covering the staff from just hired to deeply experienced professionals.

As the business world changes at a fast-tracking rate, auditors need to keep up or risk becoming irrelevant and ultimately unable to provide the insight that will allow their organizations to flourish. That means they’ll need to frequently add to their skills and knowledge.

The increasingly cross-border operations of many companies also make ongoing training more critical. Every audit professional has varying professional development needs, from new hires to partners.  There is a natural progression of necessary skills as increasing responsibilities are assumed on audits, and more complex issues and engagements are faced.

Illumeo is pleased to share that we have partnered with a top national accounting instructor Jennifer Louis to provide a world-class Professional Audit Skills Training Program. Jennifer has over 25 years’ experience in designing and instructing high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organization success. In 2003 she founded Emergent Solutions Group, which is dedicated to meeting organization’s professional training needs. Jennifer serves a wide variety of clients, including public accounting firms, state CPA societies, private industry corporations, and public sector agencies.  

“We’re delighted to offer the Audit Skills program on Illumeo.” said John Kogan, Illumeo’s Founder and Chairman. “Jennifer Louis is one of our best instructor for a good reason: she has a way of taking complex topics and making them simple and approachable for all. Every module of our Audit Skills program includes multiple exercises, case studies, or other hands-on means to reinforce the practical application of core concepts.

The Professional Audit Skills program consists of four (4) training levels starting from beginning staff, experienced staff, in-charge/senior staff to Supervisor and Managers. The course is available online and can be taken on any computer, tablet or phone with a browser and web connection, so they are easily and almost universally available. Once purchased, the entire program is permanently available to the buyer so they can use the instruction and tools as a reference any time they need. Further, purchase of the program includes free access to the entire Illumeo subscription course library for one full year, providing an incredibly rich and deep resource for auditing, finance, and many other skills of great value to professionals.

Illumeo and Controllers Council announce partnership for learning, CPE and joint webinars for finance, accounting, tax, audit and related professionals.

Illumeo, a leader in professional development for accounting, finance and related professionals, and Controllers Council, offering specialized resources and programs for controllers and accounting organizations, announced today that they will be collaborating on a CPE webinar series open to both members of Controllers Council and Illumeo at no cost. In addition, the partners will bring Illumeo’s advanced learning platform and unmatched ondemand accounting and finance course library to the members of the Controllers Council as yet another benefit that enhances their professional development.

The program will see Controllers Council and Illumeo working together to deliver a series of webinars on critical topics in accounting, accounting process, risk, controls, and more, all at no cost to those interested in learning and CPE. Controllers Council members will be gaining discounted access to the on-demand Illumeo platform in order to provide additional avenues for training and CPE.

“We are honored to partner with Illumeo for our continuing professional education, and joint webcast series,” states Neil Brown, Controllers Council Executive Director. “Controllers Council members and subscribers can now access Illumeo’s complete range of CPE and professional certifications at significant fee discounts.”

“Controllers Council is an excellent professional organization for Controllers, accounting and corporate finance practitioners,” said John Kogan, Founder and Chairman of Illumeo. “Their focus on enhancing Controllers and their organizations brings great value to their membership and we are proud to be aligning with them on both the webinar and Illumeo access programs.” At the end of the day, professional development is key to success for all accounting and finance professionals. Without it, they remain static, unable to advance careers as quickly as they would like, relegated purely to learning on the job. These days, that’s not enough. With the joint webinar series and more readily available access to Illumeo, the expectation is that these programs will significantly enhance the value of membership to Controllers Council members, and in turn enhance their careers.

ABOUT ILLUMEO:

Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo is a specialized learning platform for professionals in Audit, Accounting, and Corporate Finance and the companies that employ them. The cloud-based Illumeo learning platform provides over 1,300 on-demand courses, live webinars, thousands of continuing education credit hours, a complete Compliance Monitor™ solution with advanced assessment and development plan tools, and is used at companies of all sizes, including many of the largest and most successful service organizations and corporations in the world.

ABOUT CONTROLLERS COUNCIL:

Controllers Council™ is a community and platform of accounting and financial controllers, CFOs and related executives focused on accounting best practices, information and resources, peer interaction, recognition and networking. Programs include a national Career Center, informative articles and whitepapers, ongoing webcasts, the Controller of the Year recognition program, and now global CPE and professional certification.

For more information, visit www.ControllersCouncil.org

Illumeo is proud to announce that we have been recognized as a 2020 “Top Corporate LMS” for Corporate Finance and Accounting organizations by HRTech Outlook Magazine.

The magazine noted, “Illumeo offers over 1,250 technical finance, accounting and related courses, designed to meet the professional education requirements of professionals across the globe. Illumeo provides CPE for 29 professional designations in finance, accounting and human resources.”

Illumeo considers their differentiating factor to be the tight integration of massive course library, the most accounting, finance and HR CPE available in one platform, easy to use and highly effective tools, and the best user management and reporting available for managers and Learning and Development/HR professionals. Illumeo include custom training delivered to clients globally in a highly secured manner, highly professional instructors, a user-friendly platform, and finally, the ultimate focus on corporate finance and accounting professionals. The award was determined by a panel of experienced and distinguished HR leaders comprising HRTech Outlook Magazine's editorial board.

“We are very proud to have earned this award.” Notes John Kogan, Founder and Chairman of Illumeo. “It has taken more than a decade to get here with all of the content, technology, and support infrastructure we have built. I could not be prouder of the Illumeo team, nor happier to be recognized for our great solution and client support.”

Illumeo looks to the future with great positivity as the COVID pandemic has brought distance learning to the forefront. The company is constantly launching new courses and working on new methodologies to make distance learning even easier.

About Illumeo:

Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo is a specialized learning platform for professionals in Audit, Accounting, and Corporate Finance and the companies that employ them. The cloud-based Illumeo learning platform provides over 1,250 on-demand courses, live webinars, thousands of continuing education credit hours, a complete Compliance Monitor™ solution with advanced assessment and development plan tools, and is used at companies of all sizes, including many of the largest and most successful service organizations and corporations in the world.

San Jose, CA — (PRWEB)— Illumeo is very proud to announce the availability of its online, on-demand Professional Bookkeeping Certification (https://www.illumeo.com/curriculum/professional-bookkeeping-certification).

Bookkeeping is an in-demand job, and a perfect career choice for many. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 1.7 million people are in bookkeeping and directly related jobs today and the pay is highly competitive. Furthermore, bookkeeping is one of those highly sought-after jobs that you can do from almost anywhere. Many bookkeepers work remotely and flexibly as contractors and consultants, leading the trend for ‘distance work’. However, breaking in to the bookkeeping field is a challenge as the job requires learning quite a lot of new terms and processes.

Illumeo is happy to announce that we have partnered with a top national accounting instructor, Lynn Fountain, to provide a world-class Professional Bookkeeping Certification program. Lynn is a CPA with extensive experience at both small companies and large global enterprises where she has twice been Chief Audit Executive. Lynn is not only a technical accounting and bookkeeping expert, she is highly accomplished as a speaker and instructor. Lynn has crafted a wonderful series of courses which, when taken together as a program, provide a thorough knowledge base for existing and aspiring bookkeepers alike.

“We’re happy to offer the Professional Bookkeeping Certification program on Illumeo.” said John Kogan, Illumeo’s Founder and Chairman. “Lynn Fountain is our top instructor for a good reason: she has a way of taking complex topics and making them simple and approachable for all. This program will be a great entry point for those looking to become bookkeepers and to those who already are but desire greater proficiency.”

According to the instructor, Lynn Fountain, “The profession of bookkeeping has long been a valued area for support of the finance and accounting function. It is critical that bookkeepers have a strong understanding of not just the tactical elements of their job, but the analytical elements as well. This ensures their continued value to the organizations they support. This bookkeeping program was designed to help the bookkeeper understand critical terminology, the procedural elements and the ‘analytical value-add’ of their job.”

The Professional Bookkeeping Certification program consists of twelve (12) video-based ‘core’ courses, each with its own quiz and final test. These can be taken on-demand, at a place and time of the learner’s choosing. The program also includes a case study that pulls many of the key concepts together with a real-world example, clearly demonstrating many accounting entries and providing a ‘hands-on’ experience. In addition, the program comes with a bonus ‘resource’ course that includes two dozen highly practical bookkeeping tools which many program-takers will find useful in a variety of bookkeeping roles.

As one recent bookkeeping program course-taker said, “Excellent instructor and a great course for beginning accountants and bookkeepers. This course should be an overview for ALL bookkeepers!”

The courses are available online and can be taken on any computer, tablet or phone with a browser and web connection, so they are easily and almost universally available. Once purchased, the entire program is permanently available to the buyer so they can use the instruction and tools as a reference any time they need. Further, purchase of the program includes free access to the entire Illumeo subscription course library for one full year, providing an incredibly rich and deep resource for accounting, finance, and many other skills of great value to bookkeepers.

Whether you are interested in becoming a bookkeeper or are already providing bookkeeping services but want to get better and learn from one of the top U.S.-based accounting instructors, check out Illumeo’s new Professional Bookkeeping Certification program at https://www.illumeo.com/curriculum/professional-bookkeeping-certification.

ABOUT ILLUMEO

Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo is a specialized learning platform for professionals in Audit, Accounting, and Corporate Finance and the companies that employ them. The cloud-based Illumeo learning platform provides over 1,000 on-demand courses, live webinars, thousands of continuing education credit hours, a complete Compliance Monitor™ solution with advanced assessment and development plan tools, and is used at companies of all sizes, including many of the largest and most successful service organizations and corporations in the world.

ABOUT LYNN FOUNTAIN

Lynn is widely considered an expert in the fields of accounting and risk management. Her expertise has been recognized through her ability to provide individualized training as well as assist global organizations in establishing expertise for their employees.

San Jose, CA — (PRWEB)— Illumeo is very proud to announce that is has been named, “Best Overall” CPE solution for CPAs by the review site CPE Compare (https://cpe-compare.com/review/Illumeo/).

The editorial staff at CPE Compare made note of a number of unique strengths of Illumeo which, when added together, make Illumeo such a standout solution. They said, “Illumeo’s platform offers an incredible variety of on-demand courses, a good number of live webinars, and an easy-to-use platform”. Among the noted strengths were:

• The largest library of on-demand CPE courses - well over 1,000
• The most professional designations covered - over two dozen types
• User ratings and reviews help users choose the best courses
• Powerful and easy-to-use platform
• Full-featured CPE Compliance Monitor™
• Insightful Competency Assessment and Development Plans

“We’re honored to be awarded the “Best Overall” CPE Solution by CPE Compare’s professionals,” said John Kogan, Founder and CEO of Illumeo. “CPE Compare does thorough reviews of the major CPE providers, and to stand above that prestigious group of solutions is a testament to the effort that everyone at Illumeo, including our entire internal team and our more than 250 fabulous instructors, have brought to this platform.”

Illumeo was built based on intensive user feedback and interaction, which continues to this day. This told us what CPAs and other certified finance, accounting, and related professionals truly needed in a CPE solution. Then we went about building it. Illumeo’s solution now powers CPAs and other critical professionals working for themselves as well as at many of the world’s largest and most successful audit firms and corporations.

The review went on to note, “Illumeo’s user experience is one of the best on the market. Once you log in, you can easily find courses and webinars, access your development plan, assessments, compliance monitor summary, completed activity, CPE certificates, certificate programs, or other offerings. Illumeo [is] so easy to use. All of the platform’s capability is available for smart phones, tablets and any kind of PC or Mac. It’s truly universal.” This was all by design and based on user input which we turned into the Illumeo solution.

One thing we’re most proud of is not only the fact that we are the highest rated platform they have ever reviewed, but also that we are one of the most affordable. In fact, Illumeo’s highest overall rating combined with almost the lowest cost of all CPE platforms they have reviewed, really sets us apart.

Whether for individual learners or for the firms and corporations that employ these professionals, Illumeo is leading the way with rapidly advancing technology and trusted, expert-built courses that make learners better at what they do while it simultaneously keeps them up to date on their CPE. Learn more at https://www.illumeo.com/.

ABOUT ILLUMEO

Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo, the LMS for CPE^®, is a specialized learning platform for professionals in Audit, Accounting, and Corporate Finance and the companies that employ them. The cloud-based Illumeo learning platform provides over 1,000 on-demand courses, live webinars, thousands of continuing education credit hours, a complete Compliance Monitor™ solution with advanced assessment and development plan tools, and is used at companies of all sizes, including many of the largest and most successful service organizations and corporations in the world.

San Jose, CA — (PRWEB)— Illumeo launches its continuing professional education (CPE) Compliance Monitor™ to help CPAs and other certified professionals monitor compliance with their critical and complex continuing education requirements. Learn more at https://www.illumeo.com/cpe-compliance-monitor.

There is nothing more important to the working lives of most certified professionals than maintain their certifications. Most spend years and tens of thousands of dollars earning those certifications and they frequently determine which jobs are gained and lost by those hard-working people.

Alas, managing compliance with CPE requirements is one of the greatest headaches facing CPAs and other certified professionals in today’s frenetic business world. By pure volume it’s an even bigger headache for the firms and companies they work for as they may have dozens or hundreds of such employees they want to keep up-to-date and certified. Everyone wants to make this CPE problem go away. At some point, CPE tracking became in many ways more complex and challenging than the required learning itself, as each state has their own control over rules around becoming and remaining a CPA in the state, and each association controlling other certification types bring yet more rules. It’s a quagmire of compliance.

And it simply needs to get easier to manage. Our users increasingly asked us to bring a solution to bear with the Illumeo hallmarks of being powerful, complete, and scalable, yet easy to use.

We created the Illumeo CPE Compliance Monitor™ to answer those requests. This tool, fully integrated with Illumeo’s already-class-leading on-demand learning platform, does quite a lot, including:

• Automatic tracking of users’ compliance periods
• Enforcing minimum and maximum credit needs across categories and required subject/topic areas
• Enabling carryover credits and special credit requirements in a variety of use cases
• Initially covering compliance monitoring for the following certifications: CPA for all 50 US states and Puerto Rico, CA (chartered accountant), CMA, CIA, CRMA, CIST, CRFS, CISA, CISM, and CRISC, with more coming soon.
• Providing multiple certification tracking for an individual
• Tracking credits earned anywhere, on any platform, and in any format (online, on-demand, live, in-house, etc.)
• Bringing permanent CPE records retention

Why so many features? Because CPE monitoring is complex and truly hard to do. Furthermore, it requires not just code, but ‘art’. The ‘art’ part drives usability, which is critical when utilizing a CPE tracking solution. There are just so many moving parts, so many requirements, and so many rules that one can’t afford to overlook. Tracking all of that should be second-nature and not fraught with guesswork and uncertainty. That’s why Illumeo focused much of the extensive development time for this solution on user testing and feedback. Ease-of-use came second only to ‘getting all the rules right’.

“We’re very happy to be bringing such a useful tool to our individual, firm and corporate users,” said John Kogan, Founder and CEO of Illumeo. “Continuing Professional Education has gotten ever more complex and busy professionals don’t want to have to stay current on all of the rules and regulations themselves. We provide a platform that does that for them and puts all of their development and compliance needs within easy reach. This works well for individuals, firms and corporations alike.”

Illumeo has brought together all the elements needed to provide professional development and continuing education management into one easy-to-use, cloud-based platform for learning and CPE anywhere, anytime, on any device. Illumeo provides a truly one-stop-shop for its users with its class-leading on-demand course library, live webinars, self-assessment tools, course recommendation engine, and personalized learning plans. As a result, Illumeo is used by leading companies across the country and across the globe.

Whether for individual learners or for the firms and corporations that employ these professionals, Illumeo is leading the way with rapidly advancing technology and trusted, expert-built courses that make learners better at what they do while it simultaneously keeps them up to speed on their CPE. Learn more at https://www.illumeo.com/cpe-compliance-monitor.

ABOUT ILLUMEO

Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo, the LMS for CPE^®, is a specialized learning platform for professionals in Audit, Accounting, and Corporate Finance and the companies that employ them. The cloud-based Illumeo learning platform provides over 1,000 on-demand courses, live webinars, thousands of continuing education credit hours, a complete Compliance Monitor™ solution with advanced assessment and development plan tools, and is used at companies of all sizes, including many of the largest and most successful service organizations and corporations in the world.

Illumeo is proud to announce that it has been selected as one of CIO Review Magazine’s “20 Most Promising Education Technology Solution Providers” for 2019.

As noted in the article when referring to training for accounting and corporate finance professionals, “much of the training delivery to these organizations is the same now as it has been for decades: live and in-person.” This is a shame because skills training needs to be instantaneous, forever-reviewable, and inexpensive, the opposite of what one gets with live training.

“Audit, accounting and corporate finance are every bit as technical and complex as any other business function,” said Illumeo founder, John Kogan. “They deserve to have a modern, online and on-demand training solution. We are truly honored to receive this award and acknowledgement of the work Illumeo is doing to help our users survive their day-to-day jobs and thrive in their careers, while helping companies build and retain the best accounting and finance workforce they can.”

Illumeo’s core user base of Audit, Accounting, Corporate Finance and related professionals are already highly trained and experienced. Their learning needs, therefore, are incredibly complex and varied.

As noted in the article, “Illumeo’s uniquely focused, high quality and modern take on professional development for audit, accounting and corporate finance brings a truly ‘one-stop-shop’ for these professionals. These critical professionals formerly had to find training primarily on their own or with partial solutions, as there was no corporate LMS available with the massive content library, CPE, and compliance tracking needed to satisfy their particular professional knowledge and credit requirements. This makes Illumeo the only true ‘end-to-end’ solution for audit, accounting and corporate finance professionals.”

ABOUT ILLUMEO

Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo, the LMS for CPE^®, is a specialized learning platform for professionals in Audit, Accounting, and Corporate Finance and Human Resources. The cloud-based Illumeo learning platform provides over 1,000 on-demand courses, thousands of continuing education credit hours, and is used at companies of all sizes, including many of the largest and most successful service organizations and corporations in the world.

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San Jose, CA — (PRWEB)— Illumeo Announces passing 1,000 on-demand courses.

Illumeo announces that it has hit and surpassed the 1,000 online, on-demand course mark. With the help of its more than 200 ‘practitioner instructors’, Illumeo has built a top-quality course creation ‘engine’ that has recorded over 8,000 instructional video segments, produced over 1,000 full courses, and reliably launches dozens of new courses each month.

The 1,000 course milestone gives Illumeo the largest on-demand, video-based course library serving Audit, Accounting, Corporate Finance and related professionals. Illumeo also provides over two dozen varieties of continuing professional education (CPE) credit across its course library, helping it serve its constituent’s compliance needs. When added to Illumeo’s CPE tracking, competency assessment and enterprise-class user management and reporting, the massive course library gives Illumeo the most complete professional development solution available for Audit, Accounting, and Corporate Finance and related professionals.

“Illumeo serves professionals in Audit, Accounting, Corporate Finance and related areas with professional development and continuing education (CPE) credits, and to have a meaningful impact we have to have the content they need,” said John Kogan, Founder and CEO of Illumeo. “Although 1,000 courses seemed unattainable when we started Illumeo in 2016, we’re just hitting our stride and can’t wait to get to 2,000 courses.”

Illumeo’s core user base of Audit, Accounting, Corporate Finance and related professionals are already highly trained and experienced. Their learning needs, therefore, are incredibly complex and varied. Creating content for them is an honor and a challenge. To meet that challenge Illumeo has gathered over 200 ‘practitioner-instructors’ and given them the tools and assistance they need to turn their expertise into readily available knowledge.

Illumeo’s instructors are not professors, they are practitioners. A core requirement of Illumeo is that their instructors have lengthy, real-world experience in their area of instruction, and Illumeo’s instructors have over 25 years’ experience in industry, on average. Combining that knowledge with Illumeo’s course-creation tools makes for not only a lot of courses, but high quality, genuinely useful education for working professionals.

Notably, Illumeo is the also the only leading solution in its space to encourage user reviews of its courses. “We are very proud of the fact that our courses have an average rating of 4.5 out of 5.0 stars with over 50,000 ratings to date,” added Kogan. “Most learning solutions for Audit, Accounting, and Corporate Finance and Human Resources provide no user ratings and that’s not because it’s complex to do, it’s because they are afraid of the result.”

We’re not only not afraid of our ratings, we relish them – good and bad. The good ratings tells us when things are great and encourage us to do more. The bad ratings tell us we have work to do, and we get that feedback straight to our quality team and to the instructors so they can act on it. 1,000 courses wouldn’t mean much if they weren’t great courses.

ABOUT ILLUMEO

Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo is a specialized learning platform for professionals in Audit, Accounting, Corporate Finance, and Human Resources. The cloud-based Illumeo learning platform provides over 1,000 on-demand courses, thousands of continuing education credit hours, and is used at companies of all sizes, including many of the largest and most successful service organizations and corporations in the world.

Date: August 2, 2018

SILICON VALLEY, CA & PHILADELPHIA, PA— (PRWEB)— The CFO Alliance and Illumeo today announced a learning partnership to serve and upskill innovative financial leaders across the middle market.

The CFO Alliance provides professional networking and training programs for corporate leaders in finance. A critical complement to the thriving community and professional connections that the CFO Alliance empowers, is the ability of their members to access distance learning, any time and any place they need it. Illumeo’s learning platform provides over 1,000 on-demand courses that provide CPE, or Continuing Professional Education credit, all built by senior subject-matter-experts, available on their cloud-based learning platform.

We are thrilled to be able to offer Illumeo’s learning platform to our community.” said Nick Araco, co-founder of the CFO Alliance and CEO of AchieveNEXT. “By integrating the Illumeo learning modules into our CFO Alliance collaborative learning environment, CFO Alliance Members can, for the first time, take back to their teams the ability to advance their own learning and development in a coordinated way that aligns with the priorities and focus of the CFO.”

“We are honored to be selected as the online learning partner to the CFO Alliance,” said John Kogan, Founder and CEO of Illumeo. “As the premier networking and development resource for senior corporate professionals, they do a great job helping their members succeed in relentlessly challenging positions and careers.”

The learning partnership will see every CFO Alliance member receive full access to Illumeo’s on-demand courses, webinars and learning tools as part of their membership.

About CFO Alliance

The CFO Alliance is a leading network of more than 7,000 CFOs and other executives from emerging and middle market enterprises, including private, public, and not-for-profit. The CFO Alliance is both a collaborative online community platform, and the host of frequent face-to-face learning and networking events in more than 15 cities across North America. The organization conducts several studies each year including the CFO Sentiment Study, frequent “Pulse” surveys on timely topics, and the annual Middle Market Executive Compensation Survey.

About Illumeo

Illumeo is the leading learning platform for professionals in audit, accounting, corporate finance and human resources. The Illumeo learning platform is used at many of the largest companies in the world as well as at SMBs and by individuals. Illumeo's instructors are respected senior practitioners in their fields, and they build top quality courses accessible through the cloud-based Illumeo platform on any web-connected device. Illumeo helps corporate functional leaders and HR/L&D professionals serve their employees and drive improved corporate performance, training visibility and control over training spend.

Illumeo is very happy to announce that it is launching a scholarship program through which 70 qualifying students in undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs in audit, accounting, corporate finance and related areas will win a full, one-year scholarship to Illumeo’s online learning platform.

Whether you are an undergrad studying accounting or business, an MBA or Master’s candidate, or if you are pursuing a post-graduate certification such as a CPA, CMA, or the like - and many more related areas of study - you can qualify for this scholarship program.

It’s tough being a student. Not everyone learns at the same pace nor are they all on the same wavelength as their instructors. Illumeo gives learners an opportunity to learn, on-demand in an engaging video-based learning platform, from experienced subject-matter-experts. The Illumeo Student Scholarship is an opportunity to bring students in audit, accounting, corporate finance and related areas an abundance of real-world knowledge in the form of 1,000 on-demand, online courses, at their command.

“We are thrilled to be able to offer these scholarships to hard-working students,” said John Kogan, Founder and CEO of Illumeo. “The topics we cover are challenging to even experienced practitioners, and if we can make learning easier for students we will be doing a good thing for them as future practitioners themselves.”

There are some qualifications involved as this program is aimed at students currently in audit, accounting, corporate finance and related topic areas at multiple levels – undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate. Please go to www.illumeo.com/scholarship to learn more about the program and to register.

ABOUT ILLUMEO

Illumeo is the LMS for CPE. Incorporated in 2009 and based in Silicon Valley, CA. The platform is used at small, mid-sized, and many of the largest companies in the world. Illumeo's instructors are respected senior practitioners in their fields, and they build top quality courses accessible through the cloud-based Illumeo platform on any web-connected device. Illumeo helps corporate functional leaders and HR/L&D professionals serve their employees and, critically, bring their learning onto corporate systems where their efforts can be measured and reported, while at the same time offering significant cost savings through improved visibility and control over their training spend.

SILICON VALLEY— (PRWEB)— Illumeo Announces Results of the ‘Illumeo 2018 Survey Of Professional Development for Audit, Accounting & Corporate Finance Employees’

The ‘executive summary’ results from this survey are that both ‘functional’ training and CPE (Continuing Professional Education credit) for the senior functional leaders and their team/organization members in audit, accounting and corporate finance are important across the board, and that the vast majority of companies are not doing a good job of providing this training to these organizations. This forces these critical employees and their leaders to waste time, effort and money on sourcing high quality functional training and CPE for themselves, usually one-employee-at-a-time, instead of relying on HR/L&D, which they would prefer.

This survey provides insight into the current state of company-provided professional development for employees in audit, accounting and corporate finance, with responses received from over 400 corporate leaders in these and directly related functional areas, primarily at companies over 2,000 employees in size.

The survey focused on core topics of a) importance of training for the respondents and their teams, b) importance of CPE for the respondents and their teams, c) Cost of training, and d) how their companies do in providing “useful” functional training and CPE.

To that end, the clear majority of responses, in order, were a) high importance of continued training, b) high importance of CPE to help certified professionals maintain their certifications, c) around $2,000 per employee per year spent on training and CPE, and d) companies are not doing well on providing either “useful” functional training or CPE to their employees.

“It’s a bit of an eye-opener to see that companies are spending a lot of money on training for their audit, accounting and finance employees yet are scoring so low when it comes to providing ‘useful, functional’ training and CPE to these folks,” said John Kogan, Founder and CEO of Illumeo. “It is our hope that we can help these functional organizations, along with their HR/L&D support, provide the hard-to-find learning and CPE they need in a corporate learning platform.”

The full survey is fascinating and a quick read. If you want to see the survey results directly, you can go to here to download it directly (no form filling required).

ABOUT ILLUMEO

Illumeo is the LMS for CPE. Incorporated in 2009 and based in Silicon Valley, CA. The platform is used at small, mid-sized, and many of the largest companies in the world. Illumeo's instructors are respected senior practitioners in their fields, and they build top quality courses accessible through the cloud-based Illumeo platform on any web-connected device. Illumeo helps corporate functional leaders and HR/L&D professionals serve their employees and, critically, bring their learning onto corporate systems where their efforts can be measured and reported, while at the same time offering significant cost savings through improved visibility and control over their training spend.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – August 16, 2017 – Udemy, a global marketplace for learning and teaching online, has partnered with Illumeo, to enhance our course collection in popular categories including human resources, marketing, finance, accounting and more. By combining the best of Udemy’s marketplace with offerings from Illumeo, a leader in professional development and learning for corporate professionals, Udemy for Business can meet the evolving needs of corporate learning and development departments and serve their employees with a richer selection of learning content.

See the full press release.

Illumeo’s CPE Compliance Monitor^tm helps certified professionals in Accounting, Finance and Human Resources track all of their CPE in one place.

Silicon Valley, CA (PRWEB) June 15, 2017

Illumeo proudly announces the Illumeo CPE Compliance Monitortm. CPE tracking is a ceaseless challenge for business professionals. Licensed professionals go to many events, online and live, and have to keep track of every event’s easily losable completion certificates. What's worse is if they're audited for CPE. The panic - it's real.

Illumeo's CPE Compliance Monitor ^tm makes it so much easier. Users simply upload CPE, including all pertinent data and certificates, into one central, cloud-based tracking platform. From there they access their CPE data from anywhere at any time, run reports to total up CPE credits, and use the CPE Tracker's output to send to their certification’s governing authority. Problem solved.

Users add CPE from anywhere using a simple form. Any Illumeo-earned CPE is automatically entered. They then select a date range and certificate type and watch the magic. In an instant they can see right where they are on their path to CPE completion. The tool tracks all business certifications' CPE. Multiple certification holders are also in luck. Illumeo's CPE Compliance Monitor ^tm can track multiple certification varieties at the same time, and users can add any CPE for any certification type.

“We have heard time and again from our Illumeo users in Finance, Accounting, HR, and beyond that tracking CPE was one of their top challenges,” said John Kogan, founder and CEO of Illumeo. “With Illumeo’s CPE Compliance Monitor ^tm we’ve made tracking CPE much easier, regardless of where you got your CPE credit. And we made it completely free for all users, whether or not they are Illumeo subscribers.”

Finally, a CPE tracking solution that is truly CPE-provider-agnostic. Illumeo’s CPE Compliance Monitor ^tm tracks it all, easily, and makes it accessible at the user’s beck and call. Learn more and start tracking at https://www.illumeo.com/cpe-compliance-monitor.

About Illumeo

Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo serves thousands of corporations and corporate professionals across Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing. The platform offers assessments, industry-benchmarked competency analyses, hundreds of expert-developed courses, collaborative tools, and the ability for companies to self-publish internal courses that promote institutional knowledge retention and dissemination. Illumeo is the place for expertise management and we are dedicated to the proposition that everyone can be an expert at their job.

Is there a more frustrating document than the resume? They are like snowflakes, no two are alike! Resumes tell you precious little about any applicant’s actual capabilities, instead providing seemingly randomized, non-standard snippets that typically give you next to nothing on which to make a critical decision. Companies accept or reject tens of millions of applicants annually based on these barest of threads. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a better way?

Illumeo, Inc., a leader in professional development and learning for corporate professionals, is pleased to announce the release of the GreatFit™ Talent Identification and Recruiting Platform. GreatFit™ utilizes Illumeo’s competency assessment framework to provide a “Fit Score” to literally any job spec based on any applicant’s competency profile.

By using a scalable and cloud-based competency assessment, Illumeo brings massive scalability to the formerly intractable challenge of gathering a lot of meaningful and comparable data quickly, on a large number of internal or external candidates, for any position. What used to be a time-consuming and imprecise resume-vetting task, with measurably terrible outcomes, GreatFit™ turns into a far faster and more insightful process that produces more certainty for any recruiter or hiring manager.

The platform allows hiring managers and recruiters to very quickly assess existing employees and potential recruits in a consistent and meaningful manner. Companies can use assessments to find the perfect candidate with exactly the skills they need, eliminating the skill set mismatch that plagues the hiring process.

Once hired, the assessment lives on and gets periodically updated as a way to tailor ongoing learning and development for any employee via Illumeo’s Expertise Management platform,, cementing that hire as a perfect fit for the company, improving employee satisfaction and reducing costly turnover. In a world where companies struggle to find the talent they need to grow and thrive, Illumeo’s GreatFit™ Talent Identification and Recruiting Platform is a perfect fit.

Illumeo, the leader in online learning for corporate professionals in finance, accounting, HR, sales and Marketing, is proud to announce its complimentary “Awesome Dozen” course bundle. For the first time ever, Illumeo is offering a no cost bundle of top courses from its top instructors.

Illumeo got to its leadership position by having the best learning content, built on the best learning platform. Many of the largest companies in the world depend on Illumeo to provide critical skills to their employees. But there had never been such an easy and safe way to deeply experience the platform and the content. That changes today.

Illumeo is making this bundle of twelve courses available with zero cost and no obligation. The courses cover a wide gamut of core learning needs for corporate professionals, including Excel, leadership, finance, accounting, sales, marketing and career topics. These top-rated courses are roughly one hour in length each, bring top-notch educational material and instruction, and many of the courses include continuing education credit (free CPE) for CPAs and many other certified corporate professionals.

“Response has been so positive to our platform from our paying clients that we wanted to remove any and all barriers for people who have a need for professional education,” said John Kogan, Founder and CEO of Illumeo. “This Awesome Dozen bundle provides an extensive, totally risk-less look at the great instructors, content, and tools already provided to Illumeo’s global customer base.”

Anyone who wants in can simply go to http://www.illumeo.com to register for Illumeo’s “Awesome Dozen” to experience a whopping serving of the great on-demand education available to corporate professionals on Illumeo.

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) MAY 18, 2017

llumeo, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of the Certified Expert in Corporate Property Insurance program. As a new addition to Illumeo’s Focused Business Certifications, the program is an efficient and cost effective way to build world-class expertise and boost your career.

Illumeo has partnered with Barry Zalma, a internationally recognized expert on insurance, insurance coverage law, insurance claims handling, and insurance fraud, to create a program containing deep knowledge. The program includes a complete course of study providing education and training to allow insurance professionals, after completing the individual classes, to become a Certified Expert in Corporate Property Insurance. The program covers everything an employee, an officer, or a director of a corporation needs to know about the need to get the proper insurance and to resolve any claim presented by the corporation to the insurer.

Major topics of study include, but are not limited to: the importance of insurance; how to acquire insurance and understand an insurance policy; the methods used by insurers to investigate claims, including first-party property claims; the various types of insurance that corporations need; the duties and obligations of a public adjuster; and how to present a claim that will be paid. The program is spread over 16 courses and is completely on-demand, on any device, and at anytime.

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) MAY 03, 2017

Illumeo, Inc., a leader in professional development and learning for corporate professionals, is proud to announce the launch of the Illumeo for Educators program, with pre-professional curricula focused on both undergraduate and graduate business students. Illumeo for Educators comes in response to a sea change in the way students are learning in the modern world, indicative of a move away from straight lecture and into more varied and cross-modal teaching methodologies. Illumeo for Educators takes advantage of Illumeo’s class-leading business learning platform, hundreds of world-class instructors, and anytime, any device, video-based learning tools.

With a flipped class, students access lecture material outside of class time, which frees up professors and students to spend their time together working on more interactive learning activities. Research studies have indicated that the "flipped classroom" can be conducive to a more effective (and more popular) environment for both students and professors.

Illumeo for Educators’ initial programs are Business Analytics 101 and Introduction to Financial Accounting. These programs were created by university professors with decades of experience both in industry and lecturing in higher education, so as to blend teaching experience with career-oriented expertise. Both programs contain 10 courses consisting of 10 hours’ worth of lecture material as well as PowerPoint slides, case studies, hands-on activities, workbooks, quizzes, and tests, and are available at [student friendly prices].

Whether as a replacement for a textbook or as a supplement to existing lectures and course material, Illumeo for Educators curricula provide the opportunity for universities and other providers of higher education to increase the engagement between professors and students while also serving to deepen the learning experience and provide the practical, career-oriented learning material Illumeo is known for.

Illumeo for Educators is here to make it easier for professors and students to transform their college classroom into a useful, enjoyable, and high ROI, 21st century learning experience.

(PR Web) Today, Illumeo, Inc. proudly announces the launch of Focused Business Certifications. A new addition to Illumeo’s class-leading Expertise Management system, Focused Business Certifications are an efficient and cost effective way to build world-class expertise in finance, HR, sales and marketing.

Knowledge workers need to do more than ever to stand out from the crowd and achieve career success. Today, Illumeo, Inc. proudly announces the launch of Focused Business Certifications. A new addition to Illumeo’s class-leading Expertise Management system, Focused Business Certifications are an efficient and cost effective way to build world-class expertise in finance, HR, sales and marketing.

Focused Business Certifications bring the world of on-demand learning convenience and low cost together with Illumeo’s hundreds of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). We are launching certification programs that build deep expertise in highly focused topic areas such as Internal Controls, Ethics, Excel and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and will be expanding our certification offering to cover many more topics in Finance, Sales, HR and Marketing. Each certification program includes from ten to over forty hours of engaging, operationally-focused courses available on demand, any time and on any device. Each certification focuses on a critical, highly targeted topic to provide deep learning and contextual insights only deliverable by SME's with decades of experience in their field, just like Illumeo’s more than 200 expert instructors.

“Our intention is to enable corporate professionals with just the learning they need to succeed at their current or prospective job, and find long-term success, without excessive time or cost,” noted John Kogan, founder and CEO of Illumeo. “Today’s corporate professional needs to stand out from the crowd with their depth of knowledge, leading to better performance and better career outcomes. We’re proud to be a part of our users’ professional success.”

At launch, Illumeo has four Focused Business Certifications: SOX, Excel, Internal Controls, and Ethics, with plans to grow to dozens of certifications during the course of 2017. The certifications will provide learners with an incredible start in a particular area of career focus, or will provide someone already working in the topic area with the additional depth and expertise needed to propel their career forward. Hiring managers will want to hire people with the proven quality and depth of knowledge that Illumeo is known for.
Work is hard enough as it is. Building expertise should come easily and shouldn’t break the bank. Illumeo makes this possible with its Expertise Management platform, used by dozens of Fortune 1000 companies, and now with Expert Certifications. We are excited and proud to help our users succeed!

San Jose, October 19, 2016 — Illumeo, Inc. today announced the general availability of its cloud-based Expertise Management platform. Designed to ensure that every corporate professional can be an expert at their job, the platform delivers full-cycle professional development that directly helps companies build in-house expertise, and individuals take control of their careers.

Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Illumeo is the the leader in cloud-based Expertise Management solutions for the enterprise. These solutions combine the power of industry benchmarked corporate professional competency assessments and analyses, with both 3rd-party-expert and company-created and -presented courses and customized learning plans in a simple to use cloud-based platform that helps corporate professionals gain expertise that is directly beneficial to their companies and their careers.

Illumeo CEO, John Kogan noted “in today’s fast-paced business environment, it is too easy for individuals to stall in their roles, and for organizations to fail to get the best out of their workforce. Expertise Management ensures that professionals develop skillsets that help them thrive at their current job and build long-term career success. Sophisticated reports, dashboards and tools empower them to work directly with their managers to ensure every minute of effort is directed at needs that will be highly valued by their current company, and effective at building long, successful careers.”

Only half of all U.S. employees expect to be with their current company in 12 months, a sure sign that employers are suffering from undesirable turnover. Providing the tools and processes that help employees build successful and fulfilling careers is a leading strategy for boosting engagement and long-term commitment. And as worker productivity continues to stagnate, making the effort to build expertise empowers any organization to get ahead of the competitive curve.

Current corporate customers for Illumeo Expertise Management solutions include Cisco, Carnival Cruise Lines, and Metlife among many others. Solutions powered by Illumeo include full cycle Expertise Management covering corporate sales, marketing, HR and finance, Sales Enablement, Employee On-Boarding, and continuing professional education for more than two dozen professional certifications. Additionally, thousands of individuals from companies across all industries have enrolled in the Illumeo personal edition, gaining access to over 500 expert-authored and -presented courses, most of which provide valuable continuing education credits for certifications including CPA, CMA, IIA, SHRM and HRCI.

“The time is now for every professional to become an expert,” concluded Kogan. “With the Illumeo Expertise Management platform, every working professional can be an expert at their job, and every company can build expert teams, comprising professionals who are actively managing their expertise, delivering exceptional results for all. This is the future of professional development for working professionals and their companies.”