Internal Audit and Controls Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This training program will discuss how fraudulent activities continue to stay on the rise despite enhanced technology. Financial institutions are starting to get more aggressive with securing their networks and computer systems, along with conducting more ongoing and thorough background checks on employees. The course will detail how using more preventative measures to identity and stop fraud is key in any organization.

This training program will help participants understand when an investigation is warranted, considerations in working with outside investigators, and provide practical steps to conduct your own internal investigation. Employee complaints go with the territory when you are a manager. But how do you know when to address a complaint informally or when you should launch an investigation? This webinar will also guide attendees in assessing situations that warrant formal investigation.

This training program will detail new SEC enforcement initiatives and discuss the SEC enforcement mindset. It will also discuss SEC enforcement trends over time and controls to put in place to prevent exposure.

This training program will discuss how to create an effective M&A strategic plan that will help attendees identify and solicit targets that will add to the long-term shareholder value of their institution. Is your institution in the market for an acquisition or looking to grow? If so, this session will assist you and discuss keys to identifying and persuading an acquisition target interested in selling and the steps to completing a successful acquisition.

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 provide participants with an essential, basic understanding of U.S. rules and regulations governing international trade. The regulations contain required (and prohibited) business conduct, with penalties for failure to comply including fines, loss of export privileges, and even jail terms. In many cases, banks are required to police transactions they handle and report violations.

This presentation will explore the nature of decision making in crisis situations. It will explore the psychology of decision making under stress and overview risk management analysis tools. The webinar instructor will present tips and techniques to identify structural and cyclical changes, improve risk management strategy processes, and identify transparent vulnerabilities.

The prevention of money laundering is a key focus of regulatory authorities in developed countries around the world. Money laundering regulations are designed to inhibit the movement of funds derived from criminal activity and to restrict the availability of money to fund terrorist activities. This training program will detail the historical context of AML regulations, best practices to implement an effective AML program, and reporting guidelines for the same.

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 webinar will detail ERM core elements and discuss the basics of risk assessment. Attendees will learn to identify critical risk areas and mange backlog of risk areas as well.

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.

This webinar will discuss the risks and costs of data breaches. Participants will learn who is vulnerable and what can be done to help prevent losses from data breaches. Additionally, the course will discuss the legal responsibilities and liabilities of an organization that is a victim of data breach and offer guidance to help prevent such breaches.

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.

Enterprise risk management has become the new buzz word for business. This webinar training will highlight best practices for members of the board of directors and senior management for implementing and maintaining an enterprise risk management program. It will provide advice on what regulators look for in proper governance procedures and documents. The session will follow the creation of a risk management program and explain how the program should be managed by the company’s board.

This course will cover key assessment methods utilised for assessing risks and controls. The assessment methods discussed in this webinar will be based on internationally recognised standard - ISO 31000.

Effective risk-based auditing requires that the auditor understand management’s attitude to, and tolerance of risk. This training program will focus on audit planning based on an understanding of the internal control structure intended by management to mitigate risk and the degree of implementation of ERM.

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 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.

Reputational risk is receiving a tremendous amount of focus. Organizations need to have the capability to identify, manage and measure their reputational risk, while employees in every level are familiar with an effective approach towards the same. This training program will discuss how different companies have either failed or succeeded in managing their reputational risk and analyze best practices to take control of reputational risk situations.