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

This training program is designed to ensure that businesses maximize the available deductions for travel and entertainment expenses. It is important to remain current on these regulations as the Internal Revenue Service focuses a fair amount of effort in this area during audits.

This training on detecting and preventing vendor fraud will help the attendees to identify the different types of vendor-related fraud schemes and implement best practice anti-fraud control strategies.

This webinar will discuss the principles of drop shipment exemption. It will also detail how you can help your company legally avoid tax assessments by your drop shippers on your resale orders.

Attend this webinar to understand the best ways to maintain annual compliance with DFS cybersecurity requirements through a strategic transformation of IT security monitoring to proactive cyber risk management; and to learn how a human-centric security orchestration model with people, process and technology will save and make you money.

This webinar will outline how the debit entries such as ARC (Accounts Receivable Entries), BOC (Back Office Conversion), and POP (Point-of-Purchase), WEB and TEL will be affected in the new environment for the originator and the receiver. It will also describe the roles of all third-party senders, ACH software vendors, and ACH payment processors and should ensure accurate ACH processing, including the accurate dating of ACH transactions.

In response to the need for faster electronic payments and settlement, NACHA balloted a proposal for Same-Day ACH. The ballot passed and Same-Day ACH is rolling out over a three year span; phase one went into effect in September 2016. Current statistics show that Same-Day ACH is already gaining in popularity, but phase two is just around the corner and presents significantly more risk for all involved. In this training program, participants will grasp the background and basics of Same-Day ACH and learn to analyze the benefits and risks involved.

This webinar discusses 10 areas of wage and hour and tax law that when misunderstood or applied incorrectly causes employees to be paid or taxed incorrectly with the resulting penalties, fines and interest levied on the employer. Some of these wage and hour law misconceptions can even cause the employer to overpay employees forcing unnecessarily higher labor costs.

This webinar on detecting and preventing Accounts Payable (AP) fraud will discuss various ways in which AP fraud can be committed, the telltale signs of AP fraud, and the various options for responding to possible AP fraud once it is recognized.

This webinar will untangle the complexities of UCC4A and how it applies to ACH payments. It will discuss legal and compliance risks presented by UCC4A and provisions impacting potential liability.

This training program will help identity frauds that lead to tax refund fraud and discuss funds availability exceptions. It will also discuss common non-post issues, the IRS Opt-In Program and eLeads, refund handling procedures, remedial actions, and suspicious activity reports.

The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) imposes a robust set of requirements on various industries to include banking organizations, mortgage lenders, gambling institutions, insurance agencies, and more. The main goal of the BSA is to help the government detect and prevent money laundering as well as terrorist financing. From this main goal, the rule requires reporting of various transaction types both individually and in the aggregate and reporting of suspicious activities. This webinar will help understand the fundamental requirements of the BSA/AML statutes and the annual AML training requirements.

This is the third training session in the 3-part series on Exception Processing. It’s not just about return entries – exceptions are anything that is out of the ordinary ACH processing day-to-day (such as Direct Deposits and Direct Payments via ACH). Reinitiation of Entries and the Reversal process are anything but ordinary; they require knowing what the specifics are and ensuring a financial institution is in compliance with the NACHA Operating Rules.

Both clients and tax advisors should be aware of the IRS audit process. This webinar will introduce advisors and clients to factors the IRS considers in selecting an individual for audit, how the IRS obtains information during the audit, and provides you the tools needed to represent the client through IRS appeals.

Learn how effective AML analytics, algorithms, machine learning and data science can strengthen your compliance program. This session will also discuss using analytics to help BSA/AML investigations, how you can use the CDD data gathered along with analytics, model validation and BSA/AML.

This training program will review a few ways to ensure that a financial institution reviews things from the start and consistently, in setting up a risk management framework that allows the bank to focus on its strategy rather than mere compliance.

From calculating DSO and DSI and planning for seasonal adjustments to using Excel date arithmetic to schedule payables, receivables and cash flow, this training program will assist attendees in effectively constructing the monthly cash flow forecast using Excel.

The new IRS partnership audit rules require all partnership and LLCs taxed as partnerships to amend their partnership agreement and take action now. In this training program, attendees will learn how these rules impact your business and your clients. The session will discuss IRS issues with TEFRA (Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act) and detail the concepts and terms in the Bipartisan Budget Act.

This training program will help attendees recognize the risks of failing to thoroughly vet the information received from a business loan applicant that project future revenues, profits and cash flows. Attendees will also learn to track cash through a business operation, dissect the cash cycle of the operation, and comply with SBA standards concerning expected cash flow attributes of loan applicants.

This training program will help attendees understand how the Interagency Appraisal and Evaluation Guidelines define HRTs (high risk transactions). It will also discuss best practices for checking your bank transaction risk process and offer ideas for improving your bank’s process for assessing and handling HRTs. Attendees will learn more about the regulatory impact of a HCRE transaction and the limited exemptions for ADC loans.

Accountants and other financial professionals who deal with privately held entities wishing to reduce the cost and reporting burden that exists with reporting using generally accepted accounting principles should become familiar with the AICPA’s (American Institute of CPAs) recently developed accrual basis framework of accounting. This training program will deconstruct AICPA's financial reporting framework for small and medium size entities.