Banking, Financial Services 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 discuss the current changes in the marketplace and expose the new faces of AML and examine areas of PEP regulation that pose present and future challenges for regulated businesses.

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 webinar will discuss different approaches to risk management. Attendees will learn how to identify common risks and mitigate their impact.

This training program will discuss how crowdfunding has come of age. It will also detail business capitalization and investment opportunities created by the JOBS Act of 2012.

This training program on letters of credit for importers and exporters is designed to provide attendees with an end-to-end understanding of the L/C (letter of credit) process. From the beginning of a contractual agreement, through the letter of credit application process and actual negotiation of the L/C, this information-rich webinar will provide techniques that are indispensable to both importers and exporters.

Debit card fraud is as prevalent as ever and one out of every 5 debit card holders in the U.S. has experienced fraud on their card. The consumer will expect the financial institution to remedy the situation once reported. This training program will analyze the liability of the accountholder versus the liability of the financial institution.

This webinar will train attendees on how to make quick and accurate corrections to Forms W-2 and 941. It will review legal and regulatory changes for the 2015 filing season and discuss best practices for gathering, calculating and reconciling W-2 data.

The objective of this training program is to understand the impact of cryptocurrencies and how they are shaping the current economics of the banking industry. The course will also offer attendees an understanding of how to implement protective and supportive measures into current compliance operations.

Learn more about fraud investigation and get trained on effective investigative techniques by former SEC Inspector General David Kotz. This executive training session will increase your understanding of conducting a credible fraud investigation and creating precise reports. The session will conclude with best practices for putting in place policies that detect and deter fraud.

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 on investigative interviewing will guide participants in determining who to interview, why that person needs to be interviewed, what is to be asked, when and where the interview will take place, and, and how the interview will be conducted.

This interactive training program will enable attendees to devise a plan to assess and develop their organization’s internal control structure. They will also gain an understanding of key areas that are impacted when there is a lack of internal controls.

The NACHA Operating Rules and Guidelines require that all participating depository financial institutions, third-party senders and third-party service providers that provide ACH services conduct an annual ACH audit to be performed by December 31 of each year (ACH Rules, Appendix Eight, Section 8.1). It is critical that electronic payments work safely and efficiently for all users. The ACH network strives for just that by requiring the annual ACH audit. This webinar will offer attendees a keen understanding of general audit requirements, and the functions of a receiving depository financial institution (RDFI), and an originating depository financial institution (ODFI).