Banking Financial Services and Insurance
Fraud - What IRS Looks for and How You Should Avoid It?
A former IRS Revenue Officer and Fraud Technical Advisor describes what indicators IRS employees look for as evidence of various tax crimes and how practitioners should be aware of those same indicators so they can get the problem fixed before IRS finds it, prevent the client from committing fraud in the first place or recognize when it is in their best interest to disengage if the client won’t cooperate. A..
New NACHA Operating Rules Changes for 2026
Each participant in the ACH Network is required to follow the NACHA, Operating Rules and be compliant, even when it pertains to Risk. Effective March 20, 2026 – Phase 1 for Risk Management (part of a larger package) to help reduce the incidence of successful fraud attempts and improve recovery of funds:Fraud Monitoring by Originators, Third-Party Service Providers/Third Party Senders and ODFIs, ..
Financial Literacy from Basic to Complex
Financial literacy is the ability to understand and effectively use various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. It is a lifelong learning process that starts with basic concepts and evolves into complex financial strategies. Financial literacy is a critical skill that evolves from basic understanding to complex financial management. At the basic level, it inv..
AML Regulatory Insight For August 2024: Implementing Recent Changes In Your Financial Institution
It's important for us to connect rules and regulations to roles. This way each staff member will understand their new responsibilities. We are going to take a project management approach to the new rules and regulations and show how we need to act to effectively implement them and to whom. There are a number of ways to keep up with the changes which we will discuss during this training. This training is one..
Diagnosing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Organization’s Credit Culture
The market and the regulatory community pay close attention to a financial organization’s credit culture because a strong credit culture is critical to the success of credit risk management. Some 14 credit discipline tools help management to implement, maintain, and ensure that credit risk and the credit culture stay on track. Join Dev Strischek as he offers a credit discipline tool checklist and expl..
Bank Enforcement Actions 2024: What Happened And What Can We Learn?
We will go through the different banking regulators and discuss recent enforcement actions. The goal of this training is to take away the lessons learned by prior enforcement actions, implementing changes within your compliance framework, continue with your risk mitigation efforts and manage your reputational risk when similar issues arise.Areas Covered Overview of the current regulatory environmentEn..
Projecting and Financing Long-Term Sales Growth and Cash Flow Repayment Ability
Learn key assumptions in a projection and how to assess validity, and the value of a downside-most likely projection to stress test the assumptions. The session shows participants how to project the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow to calculate the loan amount needed to support the income statement projection and evaluate the ability of the borrower to repay the loan. How much inventory does t..
Fraud Incident Response Planning Essentials
This webinar explores techniques used by Auditors, Accountants, Compliance Officers, HR and Fraud Examiners in the development of a fraud-resistant environment.Areas CoveredThe webinar is designed to provide the participants with a sound understanding of:Identification of High-fraud Environments- Invitation to theft- High-risk environments- Low-risk environments- Red flags and other indicatorsManagement and..
Contract Status Report—Key to Evaluating Construction Contractors
The Contract Status Report serves as a powerful tool for ensuring transparency, accountability, and effective communication throughout a construction project:Decision-Making: Project managers and stakeholders can make well-informed decisions based on real-time data about the project's contractual aspects, including cash flow available to service debt.Early Issue Detection: By highlighting potential risks an..
14 Credit Discipline Tools for Diagnosing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Organization’s Credit Culture
Successful credit risk management relies on a strong credit culture to support and execute strategies and policies. In turn, the culture relies on some basic tools to maintain its strength. These 14 tools offer an expedient way to test the quality of credit risk management but also serve as techniques for remediating and improving credit culture and credit risk management.Learning ObjectivesDefine and expla..
Analyzing Financial Statements
You will learn all about how to start the analysis process, how the FASB and SEC operate together and where you can find audited financial statements and how to retrieve them. We will cover auditor’s opinions and what they mean. We will discuss the objectives of analysis management, learn tools and techniques such as common sizing financial statements and trend analysis. We will cover the five categories of..
Basics of Asset Based Lending (ABL)
Asset-based lending (often referred to as “ABL”) is a form of commercial lending designed to finance safely the working capital needs of a borrower whose cash flow currently may not support debt repayment. Like other commercial loans, cash flow is the primary repayment source for an asset-based loan but with a stronger reliance on the company's assets as collateral and firmer control over the receipts of th..
Basics of Forensic Accounting
Whether you are involved in evaluating the creditworthiness of a prospective customer, analyzing investment opportunities, or even beginning to suspect that something funny is going on in your own company, this session will give you the tools to determine what is really going on. It's not just about the financial statements, this presentation will show you how to conduct a preliminary investigation will hel..
Best Practices for Preventing Credit Card Fraud
This Webinar describeHistory of credit cards in corporate America - Why companies have decided to use credit cards for their employee’s - How to control cash and spending on credit cards - Pro’s and Con’s of issuing corporate credit cardsDifferences in Corporate credit cards - Individual Liability card versus Corporate Liability card - What companies are eligible for corporate..
BSA Reporting Requirements
BSA regulations require all financial institutions to submit five types of reports. Individuals or companies must file an individual filing requirement. We will go over more details later on in this presentation. They are: Currency transaction reports (CTR)Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) Foreign financial accounts (FBAR)Currency and Monetary Instrument Report (CMIR)Designation of Exempt PersonAreas Covered..