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AIB Financial and Business Planning for Bank Marketers

AIB Course Code: 2749

Course Length: 9 weeks

Course Description:
This AIB course is designed to inform and train bank personnel to perform more effectively and efficiently in the financial and business aspects of the marketing function. Its major objectives are to help marketers understand the sales goals of their business partners, and to access and communicate more effectively how marketing's efforts can help the various bank departments meet and exceed those goals.

Audience:
All bank marketers or employees with marketing responsibilities who are involved with or would like to understand the financial and business planning aspects of the function.

Learning Objectives:
The topic to be covered are as follows:
  • Purpose of the Budgeting Process---discusses why the budgeting process is an integral part
      of bank management; presents an overview of income statement and balance sheet
      dynamics; demonstrates how the marketing budget relates to the bank's overall budget.
  • The Bigger Picture---provides an overview of the fundamentals of finance and how banks
      generate revenue; includes insights into asset-liability management functions; demonstrate
      how the marketing function affects the financial institution's overall bottom line.
  • Building a Budgeting Process that Fits Your Bank---teaches how to develop a budget that
      best fits your bank, and describes methods used for choosing priorities that are
      strategically and financially viable.
  • Monitoring the Budget Process---teaches how to design a process to analyze the monthly
      performance of marketing initiatives based on your bank's primary strategy.
  • Showing a Return On Marketing Investment---discusses how to achieve tangible results
      from invested marketing dollars and how to use measurement and analytical tools
      to help monitor those results.
  • Profitability---explores the challenges of profitability measurement and the approaches
      used to enhance the value-exchange proposition between the bank and client.
  • Pricing Strategies---examines how different models for pricing products and services can
      create a variety of outcomes; presents strategies for deposit, loan, and fee service
      pricing; and discusses the fundamentals of supply-and-demand curves and elasticity
      of demand with a future view for bankers.
  • Identifying and Leveraging Target Markets---discusses why defining specific target markets
      for products and services is imperative for banks to succeed; explores strategies for
      collecting and sharing client data; and examines ways in which customer relationship mgmt
      (CRM) solutions can be used to add value to a bank's sales and service quality.

Textbook:
The course will use online materials for each of the eight modules in the course.
Financial and Business Planning for Bank Marketers is an 9-week class taught in the same format as the other AIB Online classes. Participants have access to a new lesson each Friday and will have until the following Sunday (10 days) to complete it. They may complete the lesson anytime during the week. Typically, participants will log on to the Internet two to three times during the week, and may do so whenever and wherever it is most convenient to them.

Course Credits: AIB: 1.0

Prerequisites:
None
Note: *The course replaces three course requirements of the AIB Marketing Diploma that were previously available through "Identifying and Leveraging Tarket Markets", "Profitable Accounts" and "Budgeting for Bank Marketers". Students who have already taken "Identifying and Leveraging Target Markets" and "Profitable Accounts" through a Local ABA Training Provider must complete the budgeting lessons of "Financial and Business Planning for Bank Marketers".

Required Software: Microsoft Excel


OnLine Course InfoCourse
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• Mem $324     • NonMem $486 3004575
3005352
3005439
3005498
06/22/09
09/28/09
03/01/10
06/21/10
08/24/09
12/06/09
05/02/10
08/22/10

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