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

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.

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 anti-fraud webinar will discuss how to create an anti-fraud culture in your organization. How to put down anti-fraud zero tolerance policies that explain to employees what constitutes fraud, fraud awareness training, how to recognize its red flags and how to set up a effective fraud hotline.

This purchasing and accounts payable (AP)regulations training will focus on the necessary steps to be taken to avoid compliance issues, penalties and lawsuits. It will also explain how to identify an organization’s weaknesses and how to address the challenges related to AP and purchasing compliance.

This training program will update participants on the developments regarding OFAC sanctions, OFAC enforcement trends as well as related export control traps for the unwary. The discussion of OFAC sanction developments will give participants an appreciation of the new war chest of punitive measures being deployed in recent executive orders.

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.

Different payment approaches are starting to remove the requirement for a payment card at the point-of-sale (POS), leveraging cloud-based services or mobile devices. This training program will enumerate how significant changes in the U.S. payments landscape are effecting how merchants accept payments.

Auditors and financial managers are not expected to have the expertise of forensic investigators, but they should have adequate knowledge of the aspects of fraud and maintain a skeptical mind when it comes to reviewing potential violations. Like internal controls, the economy, and business strategy, fraud continues to evolve and auditors must stay abreast of its root causes. This training program will highlight these root causes and detail suggested mitigation and investigation techniques.

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.

Crowdfunding came into existence under Title lll of the JOBS Act. The JOBS Act requires the SEC to write rules and issue studies on capital formation, disclosure and registration requirements. The JOBS Act provides a newly formed cost effective access to the formation of capital for smaller corporate America. This webinar will discuss the various forms of crowdfunding and funding portals and the regulations that presently apply and other regulations that may be applicable soon.

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 webinar will explain key components of a fraud risk assessment and management program. Attendees will learn best practices for conducting an internal fraud investigation.

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.

Criminals and criminal enterprises constantly manipulate the banking system to move their illegal proceeds through financial institutions. Their methods and trends are always changing, so investigative personnel, accountants, auditors, and FIU personnel need to be aware of these activities. This course will instruct attendees on how to examine each transaction to determine the method, the reason, and potential destination of the funds to protect financial institutions during personal and business transactions.

Often, an organization’s most vulnerable area is its accounts payable (AP) operations, where the lack of effective internal controls could pave the way for fraudulent activities and theft. This course will focus on best practices for detecting AP fraud, red flags and indicators of AP fraud and how to prevent it, while elaborating the various fraud and internal fraud categories.