Courses & Career Tracks for Utility & Cooperative Professionals

Take your AI skills from basic prompts to production-ready workflows. This course covers advanced prompting techniques, complex financial analysis, high-stakes board and regulatory reporting, a systematic quality control process, AI agents and enterprise deployment, and how to roll AI out across your entire finance team.

Build on the fundamentals of regulatory accounting with advanced applications — from contributions in aid of construction and power plant decommissioning to pension obligations, revenue decoupling, and how to properly discontinue regulatory accounting when rate recovery is no longer probable.

Learn to use AI to draft board-ready financial summaries, policies and procedures, professional emails, and training materials—with the human oversight skills to ensure accuracy and compliance.

Understand how water utilities develop revenue requirements, allocate costs across customer classes, and design rates that are defensible, equitable, and recoverable. Built for utility finance and accounting professionals.

Learn how to identify asset impairment triggers, apply the correct measurement methods under ASC 360, record the accounting entries, and use ASC 980 to recover impairment losses through customer rates.

Go beyond the 3-point formula. Learn advanced cost allocation methodologies—activity-based costing, driver-based allocations, and hybrid approaches—plus the selection framework, and implementation roadmap, to make your cost allocation methods fair to internal departments and ratepayers.

Build the financial strength your utility needs to weather storms, fund capital projects, and earn — or protect — an investment-grade credit rating. This course walks through reserve targets, written financial policies, and the credit metrics rating agencies actually look at, so you can defend your reserve position at the board table and in a rate case.

A practical, in-depth introduction to the electric industry — how power is produced and delivered, how utilities and co-ops are structured and regulated, how electric rates are developed, who does the work, and where the industry is headed.

Learn how to consolidate continuing property records without changing general ledger balances, improve cost-of-service outcomes, and reduce the accounting burden of maintaining excessive CPR detail.

A practical introduction to the electric ratemaking process — how revenue requirements are built, how costs are allocated across customer classes, how rates are designed, and what questions boards and management should ask when reviewing or approving a rate study.

Electric vehicles are reshaping utility load profiles. This course gives utility finance and rate professionals a practical grounding in EV rate design — from understanding EV load characteristics to building rate structures that recover costs fairly while encouraging smart charging behavior.

Go beyond the standard work order. This course tackles the complex, non-routine construction accounting scenarios that every utility eventually faces — from asset retirement obligations and depreciation to storm damage accounting and jointly-owned power plants.

Master the FERC Uniform System of Accounts and build a strong foundation for utility finance, operations, and rate-making. Practical, plain-language training built for people who need to apply this knowledge on the job.

Learn how to identify, measure, and record asset impairments and retirement obligations under GASB 42 and GASB 83 — and use GASB 62 regulatory accounting to defer and recover those costs through customer rates.

Master AI tools to transform your accounting and financial workflows. Learn to automate reporting, analyze data faster, write effective prompts, and build a secure AI workflow—all with conversational AI tools.

Gain the skills to read, interpret, and analyze electric utility and co-op financial statements with confidence. Whether you work in finance, operations, or governance, this course gives you the tools to ask better questions and make better decisions.

Master the complete work order accounting process — from project authorization through capitalization, overhead allocation, and asset retirement. Built for utility and co-op finance professionals who need to get construction accounting right.

Learn how to use regulatory accounting under ASC 980 and GASB 62 to align expense and revenue recognition with approved customer rates — reducing financial volatility and improving the clarity of your financial statements.

Master the RUS Uniform System of Accounts and build a solid foundation for electric cooperative accounting. Practical, plain-language training designed for co-op finance and operations professionals.

Understand how patronage capital functions as a critical financing tool for electric cooperatives, how to calculate optimal cash reserve levels, and how strategies for retiring patronage capital and managing reserves connect directly to member rates and long-term financial health.

Data centers, crypto mining, EV charging hubs, hydrogen electrolyzers, and industrial electrification are reaching utilities and cooperatives of every size. Learn how to classify a large load, design a defensible cost-of-service rate, structure a service agreement that protects existing ratepayers, get the CIAC accounting right under FASB and GASB, and evaluate large-load policy decisions the way a commission will.

Learn how to select, calculate, and act on Key Performance Indicators that drive better financial and operational decisions at your electric co-op or utility. Practical tools, real benchmarks, and a clear framework for turning data into action.

An introduction to utility finance, ownership structures, ratemaking, and cost recovery — designed for non-financial staff, board members, and other professionals who work with or oversee an electric utility or cooperative, without requiring an accounting background.

Understand the complete work order process — from opening a work order and issuing materials, through applying overhead and closing to plant. Practical training built for utility and co-op accounting professionals who need to apply this on the job.