Accounting and Taxation Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

Businesses often unwittingly commit payroll fraud when they are unaware of payroll tax laws and procedures to maintain payroll records. There can be heavy penalties assessed, fines assessed, and even jail time for payroll tax fraud. This webinar will illustrate federal and state requirements that need to be complied with in maintaining payroll records. It will further highlight several areas of concern and challenges faced by businesses and business owners in handling government contract requirements and tax forms.

This training program will offer attendees a greater understanding of payment types that are declining and those that are growing: ACH, CHIPS, and Fedwire. Plans and polices to combat payment theft and related fraud will also be detailed in the webinar.

This anti-fraud webinar will discuss how to create an anti-fraud culture in your organization. How to put down anti-fraud zero tolerance policies that explain to employees what constitutes fraud, fraud awareness training, how to recognize its red flags and how to set up a effective fraud hotline.

This training program will detail new SEC enforcement initiatives and discuss the SEC enforcement mindset. It will also discuss SEC enforcement trends over time and controls to put in place to prevent exposure.

This purchasing and accounts payable (AP)regulations training will focus on the necessary steps to be taken to avoid compliance issues, penalties and lawsuits. It will also explain how to identify an organization’s weaknesses and how to address the challenges related to AP and purchasing compliance.

Personnel records are documentation of an individual's employment history encompassing all employment-related information collected and maintained by the employer. These essential documents form the foundation upon which employment actions are based. This webinar will illustrate key concepts in managing personnel records to protect your organization from potential exposure and security threats.

This training program will update participants on the developments regarding OFAC sanctions, OFAC enforcement trends as well as related export control traps for the unwary. The discussion of OFAC sanction developments will give participants an appreciation of the new war chest of punitive measures being deployed in recent executive orders.

This training program will discuss the changes to initial and closing disclosures relative to TILA and RESPA. It will offer attendees a clearer understanding of changes to variance thresholds, affiliate relationships, and illustrate the importance of knowing your fees and avoiding closing delays.

This training program will address why internal controls over travel and entertainment (T&E) expenditures are a critical component of the control environment. Although the topic of travel and entertainment abuse is not one that management likes to address, it is a very important indicator of the adequacy of a company’s control environment.

Regardless of company size or complexity, all successful financial close processes require continuous communication, comprehensive documentation and a flexible, responsive organization. The degree to which recommendations are implemented will vary based on company size, type of industry, availability of resources, maturity, and management commitment. This webinar will present both strategic and tactical suggestions that can help dramatically improve the fiscal closing process for your accounts payable department.

This presentation will provide you with a good foundation to help you design and administer these nonqualified deferred compensation plans in a legally compliant manner. You will learn the differences between qualified and non-qualified plans, ERISA, 409A & Govt. filing requirments.

Different payment approaches are starting to remove the requirement for a payment card at the point-of-sale (POS), leveraging cloud-based services or mobile devices. This training program will enumerate how significant changes in the U.S. payments landscape are effecting how merchants accept payments.

Auditors and financial managers are not expected to have the expertise of forensic investigators, but they should have adequate knowledge of the aspects of fraud and maintain a skeptical mind when it comes to reviewing potential violations. Like internal controls, the economy, and business strategy, fraud continues to evolve and auditors must stay abreast of its root causes. This training program will highlight these root causes and detail suggested mitigation and investigation techniques.

This session will explore the different requirements of FATCA, AML, OFAC and how to avoid breaking these regulatory requirements. You will understand how to deal with all the differing requirements and developing a Customer Due Diligence strategy to deal with such scenarios.

Crowdfunding came into existence under Title lll of the JOBS Act. The JOBS Act requires the SEC to write rules and issue studies on capital formation, disclosure and registration requirements. The JOBS Act provides a newly formed cost effective access to the formation of capital for smaller corporate America. This webinar will discuss the various forms of crowdfunding and funding portals and the regulations that presently apply and other regulations that may be applicable soon.

A service-level agreement (SLA) is a negotiated agreement between two parties where one is the customer and the other is the actual service provider. This can be a legally binding formal or informal contract. An SLA should contain operating norms, which describe how the process is governed, managed, and controlled. An SLA should also include a set of operating metrics that are reported on a monthly basis.

This BFSI compliance training will highlight the NACHA Operating Rules for Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments and what financial institutions need to do to ensure compliance with these regulations.

This webinar will explain key components of a fraud risk assessment and management program. Attendees will learn best practices for conducting an internal fraud investigation.

This compliance training will focus on the 2015 ACH rule changes and updates. The chief emphasis will be on the nine recently passed ballots to keep attendees updated with the new rules and avoid violations and penalties.

This webinar will explain how to spot the red flags that could indicate occupational fraud. Attendees will learn how to develop good internal controls to prevent employees from misappropriating the organization’s assets.