Reporting, Metrics, Policies Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This training program will explore the origins of the sales and use tax, explore how and when it applies, and discuss ways to legally minimize (or even eliminate) liability. Sales and use tax is among the most complex areas of compliance for accounting professionals. Given that each state regulates the tax in its own way, companies that operate in multiple states have a detailed (and sometimes costly) compliance burden. Additionally, the use tax is often misunderstood, misapplied, and overpaid. Best practices for dealing with a sales tax audit will also be explored in the webinar.

With the increasing movement toward an electronic, interconnected and mobile infrastructure, it’s critical that electronic payments work safely and efficiently for all users. The ACH Network enables just that: by using batch processing and a store-and-forward system, it moves almost $39 trillion and 22 billion electronic financial transactions each year. This webinar will offer attendees an understanding of the different business customers who are your originators, third party senders, the credit risk associated with ACH Origination, and the required exposure limits.

This training program will guide those who need to have a basic understanding of financial statements and want to learn how to identify trends or know how to spot red flags. Apart from human resources, marketing, production, or any other non-finance related roles, the course will also benefit relatively new loan officers or credit analysts with a bank or credit union.

This training program will help find the dots relating to AP internal controls and connect them. The course will include: processes of formulation and implementation; how to develop steps for internal controls; how to develop tools for internal controls; how to benefit from these tools and more.

This training program will help attendees present ideas in financial terms for greater impact. It will detail the fundamentals of inventory planning and inventory management while analyzing inventory performance and decision making. Attendees will learn how to increase their competitive position by understanding numbers.

This webinar training discusses important steps and procedures for payroll closeout 2015 and payroll planning and processing for 2016. It explains reconciling, completing and submitting Form W-2 federal and state; update to annual changes from the IRS, SSA, DOL and on the state level; and best practices that will help make the year-end and year beginning go smoother.

This training program will detail important requirements for adequate financial recordkeeping. Attendees will learn how to record transactions, develop financial reports, and proper recordkeeping in QuickBooks.

This training program will demonstrate quick and simple ways to create PivotTables. It will assist attendees in learning how to create PivotTables from single or multiple sources, use Slicers, Timelines, Calculated Fields, Pivot Charts, and Conditional Formatting.

This training program will focus on what your company needs to know and do about laws and regulations within and outside the US regarding individuals and entities that you are prohibited from doing business with. These individuals and entities are sometimes referred to as denied, debarred, excluded or restricted parties. Contrary to the idea that these laws and regulations apply only to financial institutions, they, in fact, apply to all types of organizations. This session will identify the parts of your organization that need to be aware of the issues, the necessary controls and the steps you should take to avoid compliance issues, penalties and lawsuits.

This training program will familiarize attendees with data layout standards for optimizing data management tools. It will discuss data design tips, data validation, conversion of a list to a table, filter and advanced filter, subtotals and more.

This training program will detail what a compliance program is and what it covers. It will discuss the DOJ’s (Department of Justice) compliance investigations over the last year. The course will also illustrate how compliance programs are successfully extended to external business partners and how a code of conduct should be written into a compliance program.

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 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 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.

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 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.

This E-payments compliance training will dig in to the emerging market of electronic payments, invoicing, and workflow and how that relates to the myriad of requirements from internal and external auditors.