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

For manufacturers and retailers inventory is one of the most valuable assets on the balance sheet. The cost of inventory is one of the largest expenses on the income statement. Practitioners and members in industry will benefit from this training program’s comprehensive guidance on inventory accounting issues.

This webinar will highlight the steps to identify and evaluate high-risk customers. Learn how to perform BSA, AML risk assessments.

This webinar will refresh your understanding of bookkeeping engagements as well as guidance on withdrawing from an engagement, documentation required, fraud considerations, and internal control. It is important to have control processes for bookkeeping engagements just as we do for attest functions.

This training program will detail how to create a bullet-proof AP operation that is setup to detect and proactively prevent fraud from occurring. During this session, the webinar presenter will discuss real cases of AP fraud and the controls that organizations later realized needed to be added to their AP operation, unfortunately too late to prevent these costly incidents. In addition to discussing good controls, he will also discuss common controls that are ineffective, provide no value, or even leave AP departments with a false sense of security while they are in reality still very much exposed.

In this training program attendees will learn how to manage nonresident alien payee' tax issues in compliance with IRS information reporting and backup withholding requirements for NRAs. Also attendees will learn the five variations of forms W-8 including the new W-8BEN-E just released in Q1-2014. It will help attendees establish which W-8 to provide NRAs working for them.

This training program will provide financial professionals guidance on key ratio analysis . It will also detail a five-step analysis plan to calculate the key ratios covering liquidity, activity, leverage, operating performance, and cash flow analysis.

This webinar seeks to provide a solid foundation to all parties involved in foreign exchange activities whether at executive, marketing, audit or operational levels into how the actual trading processes work, what the risks are and how these can be mitigated by using clearly defined standards of best practice.

This training program will help attendees examine if their AP department matches world-class standards. Attendees will learn key success factors to an optimal Accounts payable operation. They will also gain in depth knowledge on the must-have technologies for any AP operation and learn how to design processes to fully leverage those capabilities. The webinar will also discuss balancing controls with efficiency and how to create a fraud-proof department. Attendees will learn about the most important metrics for any AP department and how to develop strategies to improve those metrics.

Skilled auditors require a method that aligns what they experienced during the reviewing process with what they compose during the writing process. This report writing workshop will provide foundation resources that participants can continually turn to during intense, complex audit engagements.

In this webinar training, you will learn how to create, maintain, and enforce a T&E policy for your organization. The Instructors will discuss the key components and best practices for policies.

This webinar training pays for itself in terms of your firm's potential savings and detection of fraud. The training is designed to both prevent and detect fraud. We first teach you how to establish an administrative environment where fraud is less likely to occur. We’ll then examine Excel tools that are used by CPAs and Internal Auditors to detect fraud.

This webinar will provide bankers with several advanced tax return concepts and related analyses to help them more effectively work with their business customers. It will discuss corporate tax issues including business structure, Section 179 depreciation, and bonus depreciation as well as employer provided benefits including “qualified retirement plans” and health savings accounts (HSAs).

This webinar will guide you through the critical steps in ensuring strong controls for the accounts payable (AP) function and provide practical 'how to' guidance for minimizing your organization’s exposure to AP fraudsters.

This 90-minute webinar will summarize the main types of reimbursement fraud to be alert to, and include an analysis of several “real life” case studies. It will explain how to identify the red flags of possible reimbursement fraud, offer specific fraud-audit techniques and test for these crimes and conclude with a rundown of proven anti-fraud controls.

This training program will examine vendor/billing schemes that exploit payments process control weaknesses; latest electronic payments schemes (ACH hijacking, spear-phishing, social engineering); check counterfeiting, forgery and tampering schemes to be aware of; and, detecting common external payments schemes versus internal attacks.

Key Performance Indicators and Metrics provide your AP or Procurement operation with vital information that you can use to measure success and drive process improvement. In this webinar we will discuss how to create a culture of continuous improvement within your operation using metrics.

This 90-minute webinar will help attendees discover the various types of payroll scams, how to recognize key signs of fraud, and ways to prevent and eliminate payroll fraud. It will further offer best practices to use in payroll audits to defend against fraud and negligence.

The webinar will provide an update of key federal and state unemployment issues. Participants will gain an understanding of the critical issues affecting their individual Unemployment Insurance (UI) accounts and develop methods to control UI costs and manage other related liabilities.

Have you struggled with the question - “When do I use a Stop Pay form and when do I need a Written Statement of Unauthorized Debit (WSUD)?” This is YOUR session! The trainer in this session will provide examples of when to use which form and why plus tying this information back to what the NACHA Operating Rules state to ensure you are in compliance each time you help your account holder with their request. With the newly adopted Rules change for 2020 with “unauthorized returns” what Return Reason code do I use and why? Return Reason Code R10 or R11 and what is the difference when using these to return Entries as unauthorized? Key points illustrated during this virtual workshop will assist your customer service and front-line staff as well as your operations staff.

This webinar will cover creating of a value-added internal auditing program that is compliant to FDA cGMP/ Quality System Regulation and ISO 13485. It will include how to set up and manage the auditing system as well as how to conduct an internal audit and document the results and any nonconformities. It will discuss the value of a good internal auditing program.