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

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 training program will aid those who use Excel at a basic level and help them learn to create formulas and use some of its built-in functions effectively. The training will be delivered using Excel 2016 for Windows however much of the functionality is also available to users of earlier versions of Excel on both Windows and Mac.

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 Excel training program will elucidate Excel functions that allow you to quickly create accounting reports. Attendees will learn how to create dynamic reports for any month of the year on one worksheet. They will also receive helpful handouts to help execute their learning.

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 webinar will explain tools and tips for conducting internal investigations. Attendees will learn how to conduct effective witness interviews, how to draft comprehensive investigative reports and how to report evidence of fraud to law-enforcement authorities.

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.

This training on fraud awareness program will discuss recent history and profile of fraud cases and will help attendees understand specific processes and techniques needed to be effective when providing assistance on fraud issues.

This training program will review intent and focus of Regulation E and the ACH Rules. It will analyze situations where Regulation E and the ACH Rules do not align and help determine appropriate responses and procedures to manage risk and loss.

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.

This training program will help attendees recall how to avoid complex IF statements and apply the COUNTIF function to determine the number of times an item appears on a list. It will also demonstrate several key Excel features such as applying the IFNA function in Excel 2013 and later; applying alternatives to the IF function, such as IFS, CHOOSE, VLOOKUP, and others; the ISNA function vs. the IFERROR function, and much more.

This training program will explore several new functionalities within the MS Office suite. For example, did you know Word 2013 can open PDF files directly? Charting has been revamped throughout the Office products, especially in Excel. This Excel webinar will serve as a quick start to learn the new features.