Property Certification Course Descriptions

Every organization, regardless of its size or type has critical business functions that are integral parts of meeting its objectives and accomplishing the mission. Property management is, first and foremost, a general management assignment no different than the management of any other resource such as money, personnel, or facilities. Personal property managers are directly accountable to a higher authority for the acquisition, use, redistribution, and disposition of personal property. As stewards of our company or agency’s personal property, we have a fiduciary responsibility to manage property in a prudent and compliant way.

The Fundamentals of Personal Property Management course is designed to teach the basics of property management, cradle-to-grave, including how to effectively manage personal property.

Topic Overview:

• Acquisitions
• Receiving
• Identification
• Storage and Warehousing
• Movement
• Maintenance
• Physical Inventory
• Utilization
• Consumption
• Property Disposition

Core Benefits:

• Learn about the responsibilities of personal property management professionals.
• Gain an understanding of personal property management and its importance.
• Acquire the essential tools necessary to manage personal property.

This course takes the property professional from the beginning life-cycle stages of property operations into the broader value-added world of organizational partnering and strategic property management concepts. Attendees will experience an in-depth examination of property management topics ranging from voluntary consensus standards, requirements determinations, contracting and assistance, risk, consumables, and fleet management to value-added solutions and environmental considerations. If you have at least one year of property management experience, this course provides the tools to succeed as a professional property manager.

Topic Overview

• Capital planning process.
• Voluntary consensus standards and the current ASTM International published standards.
• Cost benefit analysis as a tool in risk-based property management.
• Efficient consumables management and fiscally responsible stewardship of organizational funds.
• Fundamentals of fleet management in relationship to other property management duties.

Core Benefits

• Learn how the role of the property employee has evolved from counting stock and data entry, to a value-added profession providing efficient, cost effective, risk awareness, strategic services to the organization;
• Gain a practical understanding of strategies for enhancing participation in the acquisition and assistance arenas of your organization.
• Cultivate a high level understanding of environmental risks, regulations and liabilities.
• NPMA certification courses cover all property management categories from pre-acquisition to disposition and serve to review the information provided to students before the course begins. Once you have paid for your registration, you will receive the course materials.

Functional Areas

• Acquisition
• Audits
• Consumption
• Contracts and Agreements Clause
• Control: Ownership, Responsibility, and Accountability
• Disposition and Retirement
• Environmental Considerations
• Identification
• Maintenance
• Movement and Transfers
• Physical Inventory
• Property Accounting
• Receiving
• Records
• Reporting
• Requirements Planning
• Risk Management 

This one-day class will provide an intensive review before you sit for the CPPM exam. Testing is, however, optional, and scheduled through our proctoring service, Kryterion. The cost of the exam is NOT included in the course registration. The course is taught by an NPMA instructor who is CPPM-certified. Due to accreditation regulations, the instructor has not seen, and does not have access to, the actual exam.

Functional Areas

• Acquisition
• Audits
• Consumption
• Contracts and Agreements Closure
• Control: Ownership, Responsibility, and Accountability
• Disposition and Retirement
• Environmental Considerations
• Identification
• Maintenance
• Movement and Transfers
• Physical Inventory
• Property Accounting
• Receiving
• Records
• Reporting
• Requirements Planning
• Risk Management