Accounting Audits Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

Fraudsters are always looking for new opportunities and new weaknesses. The availability of customer data on the black-market gives them just the tools they need. A bank has responsibilities to its shareholders and customers to protect them from these ever-changing threats.

This webinar will furnish attendees with a complete understanding of the changes in the fraud arena and the strategies needed to combat fraud.

This training program will discuss the rules and regulations that must be followed when paying an employee for travel pay. The course will elaborate what is travel pay, best practices for handling the payments, how it affects overtime calculations and what is required on the state level. It will also discuss the requirements for taxing travel expenses under IRS rules.

This training program will facilitate participants’ understanding of fraud risks, detecting fraud indicators, gathering evidence to substantiate suspicions of actual wrongdoing and eliminating control weaknesses in all pertinent business functions.

This training program will explore how the initiatives that have the most value and result in true continuous improvement efforts are often the ones that are developed by a specific operational area such as accounts payable. If a metrics program is developed by the business owner of an operation, the results will be well defined and will represent the process components very well and will help to drive results. With a real time dashboard, actions can be immediately taken based on the results.

This AML training will provide you the tools to identify the differences between money laundering and terrorist financing and how to protect your financial institute against potential criminal activity. It will also highlight the complexities of modern day proactive compliance departments.

This training program will discuss how getting rid of the paper can increase your department’s efficiency and decrease overall long term costs. Some of these efforts will involve upfront costs or systems or your time to create and implement while others can be done immediately by taking advantage of improving technology offered by others. But even introducing just a few of them will reduce the paper in your department.

This webinar will enhance your knowledge of SOX Section 404 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404) by helping you understand the elements of an internal controls system. Internal controls are a key part of any organization's continued growth, performance and success. With fraud at an all-time high, a well-designed internal control structure will enhance operations by improving your department's overall security and effectiveness. SOX Section 404 mandates that all publicly-traded companies must establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting and must document, test and maintain those controls and procedures to ensure their effectiveness.

This training on Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA ) will highlight the evolution of the Act and its current regulations. It will also provide attendees practical and effective methods for solid FATCA implementation along with tools for identifying FATCA specific complexities in order to avoid enforcement actions.

Revenue Recognition Rules are changing! Over the next three years companies will undergo a major change in recording revenue. This training program will help you to gain an understanding of the elements of New Revenue Recognition Rules, so you can prepare for this change by developing a program management team, updating business processes and internal controls, learning dependencies on data, and developing your revenue automation updates and IT involvement for the new standard.

Attend this webinar to learn the strategies for conducting an internal audit and discover whether or not you have been subject to fraud plus help you to prevent internal fraud in the future. It will provide best practices for payroll departments to avoid external audits.

The ability to construct and present a winning argument by those without direct control over business processes or organizations is the key requirement to excel in today’s risk and auditing environment. This webinar will provide participants with tools and strategies that will improve the quality of your argument thereby improving your chances for providing positive, substantial and effective advice.

This unique and interactive workshop will analyze real time case studies from all components of the procure to pay (P2P) process that include: procurement, T&E, P-Card, AP, and disbursements. Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss what went wrong and will determine the key internal controls that were missing. The instructor will highlight the three critical corporate controls, the standards of internal control for P2P, and the top twenty controls for AP.

Wire transfer fraud has often rendered businesses and financial institutions helpless despite their best efforts to combat the threat. This training program will identify the red flags of common forms of wire transfer fraud and help understand how you can isolate your organization and help combat fraud. The webinar instructor will also review sound risk assessment practices to help minimize exposure.

This training on Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act will teach the attendees best practices to ensure compliance with FATCA. Learn how to comply with your withholding and reporting obligations.

Rather than focus on the computations and tactics of each of the statements, this training program will cover the important concepts of how the statements interact and relate to each other providing management with the critical information needed to manage financial stability of their organization. It is important professionals recognize that no one statement tells the complete story, but combined they provide a powerful tool for management.

While there are innumerable ways to detect, prevent and investigate embezzlement, it is not always easy to organize a consistently effective anti-embezzlement strategy. This webinar will guide you through the common and not-so-common forms of embezzlement—with uniquely instructional case studies. It will emphasize the red flags of each and go on to highlight best practices in embezzlement risk mitigation.

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.

This training program will engage attendees in a discussion on whether an expense reimbursement qualifies for exclusion from employee wages. It will offer stringent guidelines on what is required to substantiate various expenses and benefits under an accountable plan.

This webinar will discuss practical information to ensure compliance with the myriad of changes made to Form 5500 filing requirements. The Instructor will discuss EFAST2 processes and Schedule C disclosures and review changes to the 2014 Form 5500 series reports and 2015 Form 5500-SUP draft instructions. Participants will understand audit requirements and how to handle late deposits.

This webinar training will explain the process of internal controls in account payable operation as per COSO framework, why it is required and how to effectively implement it across organisation. Participants will learn how to master internal AP controls : preventive and corrective, to mitigate risk, ensure information system security and prevent fraud.