Re: Oracle Financials Training Options

Atanas,

Thanks for mentioning that. We do have some books and I don't mind reading, so that will definitly be a component. The downside is the quantity of information and the difficulty in getting quiet time to read without interruptions in order to get a solid understanding. Sadly I am 99.9% sure they will not let me travel overseas for a class (but I just may propose it as I would love an excuse to travel on the companies money <grin>)

 *Stephen*
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Cholakov, Atanas Stoianov <cholakov_at_gmx.net
> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> The option you are missing is reading documentation!
>
> As you said you are not new to Oracle Financials in this case if you follow
> the docs will get used it easily.
>
> About trainings if you consider to attend in EU I recommend this guy (
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/norrbohm)
>
> Regards,
> Atanas
>
> Stephen Andert wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've been put in a position of being backup for our Financials stuff and
>> will need to provide coverage during a team member's planned time off. As a
>> result, I need to refresh my Financials knowledge (~8 years old) and get up
>> to speed. My employer is not against spending some money on training but
>> has concerns with making sure we get quality (been burned in the past with a
>> waste of time/money).
>>
>> As I see it the options are listed below with the main drawbacks listed in
>> () after each:
>>
>> 1. Oracle Classroom (quality of instructor is variable)
>> 2. CBT (no opportunity to dig deeper on "why", interruptions)
>> 3. Third party training (quality of training material/instructor is
>> unknown)
>>
>> My questions for you folks are:
>>
>> 1. Am I missing any options?
>> 2. Any recommendations for #3?
>> 3. If we go with Oracle Classroom, is there any way to get recommendations
>> for the actual instructor PRIOR to the class)?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>>
>> *Stephen*
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>>
>>
>>
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