Course Facilitators

Accounting:
Angela Brent, CPA	Meredith Mostochuk, CBA

Business & Credit Law:
Mark Berman, Esq.	Mary Ann Blackmore, CCE
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Fee Schedule

Course fee:    $495.00
This fee covers the cost of course texts and materials as well as the access code to online portion. A certificate of achievement and a confirmation letter noting your results are provided at the conclusion of the course.

Late registration fee:
Should you miss enrolling during the open enrollment period, please contact the NACM Meetings Department to inquire about space availability. If accommodations can be made for additional enrollments, a $50 late fee will be assessed to expedite the enrollment processing and the purchase and distribution of materials.

Refund and Cancellation Policy
Materials for online courses are a special order, packaged bundle and include a course-specific password. Therefore, only 50% of the course tuition is refundable should you cancel your registration/enrollment or drop the course after the registration deadline through the first day of the course. Student substitutions, however, will be permitted up to thirty days prior to the first day of the course. After the first day of the course, no part of the tuition fee is refundable. Should you have questions, please contact the NACM Meetings Department at 410.740.5560 or conventions_info@nacm.org.

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How do the courses work?
Each course is comprised of two pieces, the traditional materials and the online component. The course tuition covers the cost of the textbook and other necessary hard copy materials as well as facilitator support. It also includes the costs associated with the online component, a special order access code and provider support and maintenance. Students are given a syllabus to follow. Each week specific material must be completed to maintain the pace of the course and insure completion. This keeps all students on the same material at the same time, making chats and studying conferences relative to all. Students are allowed one week, specified on the syllabus, in which to schedule and complete their tests. A facilitator is available via e-mail, chats and scheduled study review conference calls to answer questions or explain concepts. Participation is highly recommended for students to fully benefit from the course.

The online component contains resources and supplements to the course. It provides updates through a calendar, chats, inter-course e-mail, the syllabus and more. Quizzes and tests are taken through the online component. Tests require a proctor. Students must provide the name and contact information for a human resources manager, supervisor, teacher or other reliable individual to act as proctor. Relatives and fellow students may not act as a proctor.

A confirmation letter and certificate are provided at the conclusion of the course.

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Technology/System Requirements
The online portion of our courses utilizes Blackboard. You must use a computer with a web browser compatible with Blackboard in order to access course information and materials online.  
Microsoft Windows supports most web browsers that are compatible with the course. Macintosh supports many, but not all, browsers.

To insure that the operating systems (computer and browser) that you will be using to work on the course are supported by Blackboard, please confirm on this Blackboard web page.
Other browsers and operating systems may work well, however, the listed configurations are the only configurations that are tested and supported by Blackboard.

Please note that depending on the course that you take with us, some browser plug-ins may be necessary. To view portions of certain course sites, you may need one or more of the plug-ins below. Browsers will generally automatically download any plug-in required by a particular page. Those that may be required, for example to run an audio/visual clip, include QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Shockwave, Adobe Reader, Flash and Java Sun-Microsystems. For a list of plug-ins and links to download, visit this Blackboard site. 

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Facilitator Biographies

Accounting:  

Angela Brent, CPA                
Coming soon…

Meredith Mostochuk, CBA
Coming soon…

Business & Credit Law:

Mark Berman, Esq.              
Mark N. Berman is a member of Nixon Peabody LLP’s Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice Group, resident in its Boston and New York offices. He has over thirty years of experience with virtually every kind of interest that might be involved with a financially troubled business or individual. His efforts involve both public and privately held companies in the context of formal reorganization or liquidation proceedings as well as out-of-court workouts and restructurings. He has served as counsel to debtors, trustees, creditors and equity committees, boards of directors, individual creditors and equity holders and he has served as both a chapter 11 and chapter 7 trustee. He represents acquirers of business and business assets and provides advice to consultants, liquidators and others involved in the insolvency arena. Mark also works with project finance, public finance, leveraged finance and securitization attorneys at the Firm where he assists in the process of structuring the transaction to create predictability in the context of the potential insolvency of one or more of the participant entities, as well as with the preparation of various documents including “true sale” and “non-consolidation” opinions, intercreditor agreements and subordination agreements used in second lien and mezzanine financings. His public finance efforts have included work on the financing of sports stadiums (Yankees, Mets, Patriots, Jets/Giants, Twins) as well as military housing and real estate developments.

Mark is a 1976 graduate of Boston College Law School and a 1973 graduate of Northwestern University.  He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1989 as well as in America’s Leading Lawyers (Chambers USA) since 2004 for his proficiency in Bankruptcy Law. He is an active member of the Boston Bar Association where he served as Chairman of the Business Law Section from 1995 to 1997; Chairman of the Bankruptcy Law Committee from 1990-1992; a member of the Legislation Committee from 1999 to 2000 and where he is currently a member of the Bankruptcy Law Section’s Steering Committee. Mr. Berman is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Turnaround Management Association and the Loan Syndication & Trading Association.  He is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, and is active in the American Bankruptcy Institute where he is on the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Advisory Board, was a member of the ABI World Editorial Board and served as co-chair of the 2003, 2004 and 2005 Northeast Bankruptcy Conferences. His articles have appeared regularly in The American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Bloomberg Law Reports, the Journal of Bankruptcy Law and other publications.

Mr. Berman was appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to serve a five-year term as a member of the Client Security Board from 1997 to 2002 where he also served as Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. He has taught courses on Business Law and Credit Law for the New England Chapter of the National Credit Institute (an affiliate of the National Association of Credit Management) and currently facilitates an on-line course in those subjects for the National Association of Credit Management. He also serves as a Group Leader and member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Council, established by the Gerson Lehrman Group, a leading provider of customized consulting and collaboration solutions to corporations, non-profit organizations and the investment community.

Mary Ann Blackmore, CCE
Mary Ann Blackmore is the Senior Manager of Advanced Debt Recovery at Tech Data Corporation.  Tech Data Corporation is a leading distributor of IT products, ranked 107th on the FORTUNE 500®.  Mary Ann has over 21 years of credit experience including financial analysis, collections and loss prevention.  Her area of expertise is advanced collections working with executive management, external agencies and attorneys to oversee the handling of bad debt, bankruptcies and preference proceedings. 

Mary Ann holds a Legal Assistant degree, as well as a Bachelor in Business Management from Eckerd College.   She is also a Certified Credit Executive, the highest designation available from the National Association of Credit Management (NACM) and recently completed the NACM Graduate School of Credit & Financial Management at Dartmouth College.  She has also been a guest speaker for the Tampa Bay Chapter of Credit and Financial Development Division (CFDD).

Mary Ann is a member of the Credit Research Foundation and is a certified instructor for NACM, teaching Business Credit Principles and Business Credit Law.  As a former Credit Training Manager, Mary Ann and team developed and taught a curriculum of credit, collection, bankruptcy and fraud education.

 

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