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..
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..
Offer in Compromise: What Goes in to Preparation of an Offer?
TV Informercials make settling with IRS for “pennies on the dollar” sound like the easy way out for anybody with an unpaid tax bill. Actually the forms are complicated and don’t follow general accounting principles, the documentation voluminous and valuation of assets subject to dispute. At times some taxes unpaid taxes could be discharged in bankruptcy and the benefits of avoiding bankruptcy have to be wei..
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..
CFO Solutions to IRS Problems
Many CPAs are becoming full-time or fractional CFOs for small businesses. In that position, they are the resident expert in finances, cash flow planning, and budgeting. But what about dealing with the IRS? The IRS has broad powers to administer the assessment and collection of taxes. From removing penalties to criminal prosecutions, this presentation focuses on how CFOs can prevent problems with the IRS and..
Payments Fraud: Detect and Prevent Check, ACH and P-Card
This webinar will focus on how all this means that organizations must stay informed about new and existing payment schemes on an ongoing basis. The risk of failing to do so is loss of massive amounts of customer credit card data, exposure to new forms of check fraud, and costly new techniques for having your ACH and wire transfer account(s) hijacked by sophisticated cyber-criminals as well as your..
ABC’s of Completing the Annual ACH Rules Compliance Audit
The Nacha Operating Rules and Guidelines require that all participating depository financial institutions (ODFI & RDFI), Third Party Senders (TPS), and Third-Party Service Providers (TPSP) that provide ACH services to the RDFI or ODFI, conduct an annual ACH audit by December 31 of each year (Nacha Operating Rules, Article 1). There are changes each year in the Nacha Operating Rules that affect your annu..
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..
Business Analytics for Decision Making – Making it Work
This presentation focuses on how the finance and accounting function can leverage analytics, especially predictive ones, embedded in their financial reporting, planning, and decision making.Finance and accounting professionals are typically considered to be very quantitative. They are by nature number-crunchers. But collecting, validating, and reporting data is not the same thing as analyzing the informatio..