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To earn the CPCU® designation, you must satisfy the ethics,
experience and education requirements that are listed in
the Institutes' "Key Information for CPCU® and IIA Students."
Each Insurance Achievement learning
course for CPCU® uses a 45-session learning strategy.
To request your free personalized designation strategy for
CPCU® showing the best sequence of courses /
target exam dates, contact Insurance Achievement via e-mail:
pass@insuranceachievement.com
, phone: 800-258-2432 or
fax: 800-329-8687.
Please
indicate whether you are pursuing a personal lines
concentration or a commercial lines concentration.
Remember to include your current phone
number, fax number, e-mail address and shipping address so we can quickly
respond to your request.
Each
Insurance Achievement materials
package includes Course Guide with daily learning strategy, flashcards and I Will Pass
software with practice
exam questions! Also
receive online access to Course Updates, Cruncher Reviews and exam
questions! Audio CDs are available as a supplemental
learning tool.
CPCU® Curriculum
Candidates must pass five (5)
required CPCU® exams and three (3) CPCU® exams in a chosen
concentration - Personal Lines or Commercial Lines.
Please refer to IA's CPCU® Exam Equivalency
Chart for credit transfer.
Five
Foundation Courses
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| Difficulty Level is based on a scale from
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CPCU 510 Foundations of Risk Management,
Insurance and
Professionalism
A foundation course for the CPCU
curriculum, this course presents the American Institute Code of
Ethics. CPCU 510 encompasses risk evaluation,
management and financing and understanding an
insurance policy, including policy provisions,
insured events, amounts payable, coinsurance,
deductibles and external factors affecting policies.
Difficulty Level . . . 6
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CPCU 520 Insurance Operations, Regulation and
Statutory Accounting
CPCU
520 is an overview of how the various insurance
functions interact with each other and with outside
entities to provide insurance and related services.
The material encompasses statutory accounting
principles, underwriting, rate setting, claims
adjusting and reinsurance.
Difficulty
Level . . . 5
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CPCU 530 The Legal Environment of
Insurance
530
is based on general business law that emphasizes the
application of business law to insurance situations.
Difficulty
Level . . . 9
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CPCU 540
Finance for Risk Management and Insurance
Professionals
CPCU
540 explains basic accounting and finance principles
that apply to any organization. The material
encompasses the time value of money, investment
decision making, cash management, financial risk
management and mergers and acquisitions.
Difficulty
Level . . . 10
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CPCU 560 Financial Services Institutions
560
provides you, the CPCU candidate, with a broad
understanding of overall monetary policy and how
financial institutions and financial products impact
both the
United States
and the global
marketplace.
Difficulty
Level . . . 8.5
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Choose Your Concentration:
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Commercial Lines
(with personal survey) |
CPCU 551 Commercial Property Risk
Management and Insurance
This
course is a survey of property loss exposures of
businesses and the insurance coverages and
noninsurance techniques used to manage such
exposures.
Difficulty
Level . . . 7
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CPCU 552 Commercial Liability Risk
Management and Insurance
552
is a survey of commercial liability loss exposures
and the insurance coverages and noninsurance
techniques used to manage those exposures.
Difficulty
Level . . . 7
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CPCU 553 Survey of Personal Risk
Management, Insurance and Financial Planning
In
addition to being a study of auto, homeowners and
liability insurance, candidates learn basic
principles of life and health insurance,
investments, retirement planning and an overview of
estate planning.
Difficulty
Level. . . 7.5
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Personal Lines
(with commercial survey)
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CPCU 555 Personal Risk Management
and Property-Liability Insurance
This
course contains 15 assignments with four of these
assignments focused on the Homeowners Policy and
three assignments on the Personal Auto Policy (PAP).
CPCU 555 will provide you with the basic
concepts of personal risk management, development of
personal insurance products and underwriting of
these products.
Concepts, definitions, coverages and
exclusions are important to your mastering 555!
Difficulty
Level. . . 8
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CPCU 556 Personal Financial Planning
This
course is a survey of personal financial planning
basics.
Topics covered provide an overview of estate
planning tools and theories used to accomplish
specific objectives.
Please pay close attention to the assignments
on life/health insurance, types of investment
products, asset allocation and retirement
planning/plans.
Remember:
do not take CPCU 556 for granted!
Difficulty
Level . . . 7.5
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CPCU 557 Survey of Commercial Risk
Management and Insurance
Emphasis
in this course is on commercial insurance such as
commercial property, general liability and
automobile insurance.
Workers compensation, employers liability,
business income insurance and risk financing are
also emphasized.
Do not take CPCU 557 for granted simply
because you work in this specialty area!
Focus on concepts and theories!
Difficulty Level . . . 8.5
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CPCU 557 Now!
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CPCU® National Exams
Contact The American Institute for CPCU at 800-644-2101or
www.aicpcu.org
for information on enrolling for your national exams.
You must register and pay for exam with the AICPCU.
CPCU®
exam format:
- Computer-administered exams
- 3 hours in length
- 30-35 questions
- Essay-style, Part A & B
- CPCU 553 and 557 survey exams contain 100 multiple choice
questions
Testing Windows
- January 15 - March 15
- April 15 - June 15
- July 15 - September 15
- October 15 - December 15
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