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Business Practices and Ethics

    Online Education
 
  Course    
Category  Standards [SPP]  
Level  II  
Attendance Hours  8.0  
Current Price  $ 99.00 Member
$ 189.00 Regular
 
  Instructor    
J. Carl Schultz, Jr, MAI, SRA  
    
 
  Location    
Appraisal Institute - Online Education
 
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  Sponsor / Contact    
Contact Name  John Witham  
  Appraisal Institute  
Email  tbe@appraisalinstitute.org  
Phone  (312) 335-4207  
 
  Description    
Overview:
Business Practices and Ethics is a significant course in the Appraisal Institute's curriculum. Members of the Appraisal Institute must adhere to its Code of Professional Ethics and the Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, and must do so in an increasingly complex business environment. This course is designed to familiarize current and potential members with the obligations of a professional appraiser.

This class contains several online examinations (quizzes) throughout that meet the Appraisal Institute's cycle requirements for associate and designated members as specified in Regulations Nos. 1, 2 and 10. All associate members (Residential & General) and Designated Members are required to take Business Practices & Ethics.

Syllabus:
Module 1: Appraisal Practice: A Contemporary View
Module 2: Creating a Mission Statement
Module 3: Assignments
Module 4: Process Improvement
Module 5: Code of Professional Ethics, Certification Standard, and Guide Notes of the Appraisal Institute
Module 6: The Appraisal Institute's Enforcement Process
Module 7: Towards Improved Professionalism
Module 8: Ethical Dilemmas

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the purpose of the Appraisal Institute's Code of Professional Ethics and Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and understand how they apply to Appraisal Institute members
  • Recognize how to apply better appraisal business practices, especially with regard to client relationships
  • Identify the major steps in the enforcement of the Appraisal Institute’s peer review system
  • Recognize the guidance offered by the Appraisal Institute’s Guide Notes to the Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice
  • Identify opportunities for improving professionalism
  • Recognize common ethical dilemmas and identify strategies for resolving them

NOTE: Due to some content specific to the Appraisal institute, the AQB has approved this course for 5 hours of CE.  Check with your state for approved credit hours.  Appraisal Institute members will receive 8 hours of A.I. credit.
 
  Disclaimer    
Cancellation Policy
If you are unable to complete a seminar once it begins, you may cancel out of the seminar before the official seminar end date. Once you cancel out of a seminar, however, you must start the seminar over at the beginning in any later enrollments. You cannot be placed into the seminar where you left off before canceling.

The following tuition refund policy is in effect for canceled online seminars based on the amount of material completed in a seminar:

• Less than 25% of the seminar completed: full tuition refund

• More than 25% of the seminar completed: no tuition refund

   Transfer Policy
If you wish to transfer a registration from one seminar to another, the following transfer policy applies based on the amount of material completed in a seminar:

• Less than 25% of original seminar completed: transfer allowed

• More than 25% of original seminar completed: no transfer allowed

If you transfer from a lower priced seminar to a higher priced seminar, you will be responsible for paying the difference using the automated online system. If you transfer from a higher priced seminar to a lower priced seminar, an appropriate tuition refund will be issued.

    
I agree to the terms and policies set forth under the Appraisal Institute Online Education Policy. I also certify that I am the person identified above under Personal Data and that I will personally complete each assigned module of instruction and any examination(s). I understand and agree that if I misrepresent my identity or arrange for someone else to represent himself or herself as me at any time during the Appraisal Institute online course or seminar, I will be immediately removed from the course or seminar and I will not be entitled to any refund. I further understand that if I am a member of the Appraisal Institute and participated in any misrepresentation of identity, by affirmative act or failure to act, that I will be the subject of a peer review proceeding under Regulation No. 6 for violation of the Appraisal Institute's Code of Professional Ethics and Standard of Professional Appraisal Practice, and that such peer review proceeding may result in termination of my Appraisal Institute membership.
 
  Additional Information    
For online education, you will receive an email from the instructor on the morning of the session start date that will remind you of your login information and the website address to begin your program.

To start immediately if you registered for an online education session in progress (on or after the session start date), go to www.appraisalinstitute.org and log in with the username and password you used when you registered. You will automatically be taken to the "My Appraisal Institute" page. Near the middle of that page your course will be listed with a link next to it that says "Go To Class".

If you have any questions, please email us at tbe@appraisalinstitute.org.


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