Accounting and Taxation
2016 Year End Best Practices
The IRS provides updated tax rates and changes how taxable income is calculated each year. This webinar will assist the seasoned payroll professional on new legislation that needs to be considered. This webinar will also assist the W-2 newcomer to understand all the boxes on the form W-2 and what should be reported. A brief overview of year-end and W-2 best practices will also be discussed.Each year compani..
Accounting for Income Taxes in Financial Statements
In light of recent legislation changing the Internal Revenue Code, many accountants are realizing they are not quite "up to speed" on the accounting for income taxes, particularly the handling of deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities. This webinar addresses most issues specifically covered in FASB Statement No. 109 (ASC 740.10) dealing with current and deferred income taxes. It puts the foc..
Activity-Based Cost Management
Critics have claimed that traditional managerial accounting is at best useless and at worst dysfunctional and misleading. Today’s general ledger and budgeted spending systems support departmental and “stovepipe” managerial philosophies. In contrast, activity-based cost management (ABC/M) information supports process-based thinking. ABC is a key component of the increasingly popular enterprise and corporate ..
Audit 2020: Keys to Becoming a Trusted Advisor
This webinar explores what it means to be trusted, how to give advice, and what it takes to be an advisor. We start by looking at behaviors and organizational challenges that auditors exhibit or face. From expected roles and responsibilities to tradition to regulator dependence, auditors must deal with several influences that seem to deter progress in this area.We then provide a profile of what a trusted ad..
Auditor Responsibility Re: Fraud
This webinar focuses on fraud in the corporate environment. It reiterates some of the authoritative CPA literature related to fraud. It is, however, equally important to non-CPAs (e.g. internal auditors, corporate departmental managers, senior management, board members). It provides a basic understanding of fraud-related definitions and requirements. In particular, it separates the fraud discussion between:..
Best Practices For Multi-State Payroll
Many companies who do business in more than one State do not understand how to determine which State they must pay taxes to. They also do not understand that each State has different laws regarding residents and non-residents. This topic will give you guidelines on what factors determine which tax the employer must withhold. It will explain the differences between residents and non-residents and how to prop..
Beware Employee Embezzlement & Internal Fraud
This webinar examines the scope and nature of employee dishonesty and explains the risks to employers and organizations of all types. It goes on to deal with the practical aspects of prevention and response to victimization, as well as balancing the need to assure that corrective and deterrent programs and policies do not unduly interfere with normal operations and opportunities and do not generate other ma..
Capital Gains and Loses
This webinar will do a quick in-depth deep dive into capital gains. We will look at what they are, how do they come up, and how taxpayers can take advantage of the tax code to lessen their impact. We will start up by defining what is a capital asset. This is usually an easy question, but it can be difficult when we look at things like partnership interests and disposition of partnership interest. We will th..
Cash Flow Analysis of Borrower’s Repayment Ability
Understand the Importance of Cash Flow to Bankers, How to calculate it and what its Uses are. As a banker, you need to interpret cash flow and calculate it accurately to pitch a stellar success. This session is designed to assist you as a banker in calculating cash flow from operations and help you to calculate Global Cash Flow Analysis for those entities that must rely on excess cash generated by their own..
Comprehensive of Costing Best Practices
Whether a public company, private enterprise, or a not-for-profit organization, cost accounting is vitally important to any entity that offers products or services. Costing systems and policies are used as management tools for a variety of purposes including identifying cost and income structures for separate products/services and as an input to pricing evaluations. Increasingly they are used as a regulator..
Controller Challenges in Changing Times
The turbulent ever-changing and technology driven world of business requires changing and evolving roles for controllers. The focus is currently more on the soft side of business, rather than accounting and reporting. It is more about people pleasing, than pencil pushing. Studies have shown the controllers who want to rise in the ranks to CFO must learn to put down their pencils and master the soft skills. ..
Cost of Goods Sold - Inventory, Write-Downs, Valuations and More
This webinar is the deepest dive into the cost of goods so yet. We will be looking at all the major issues involved in determining the cost of goods sold such as IRC 263A UNICAP rules, and inventory valuations. We will also look at the new change of accounting methods available under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act along with different accounting methods people can use that related to Cost of Goods Sold in order ..
Credit Policy Fundamentals: Principles and Practices
Participants will learn how to diagnose their own credit policies to identify any gaps, and if so, how to write practical and understandable policies that meet regulatory expectations for content. They will be able to implement and maintain the processes and procedures needed to ensure that their policies are kept current and accurate, are monitored for compliance with them by means of tracking exceptions t..
Designing and Using KPIs and Performance Dashboards
We need our leaders to be effective in deploying our resources and guiding our operations to reach our goals in the most effective way. We need everyone to understand our mission and strategy so we can be sure we are all pulling together in the right direction. How well do our dashboard reporting tools support your strategic mission and goals? Are they right timed and properly designed for the users? How ma..
Detecting and Preventing Accounts Payable Fraud
Accounts Payable (AP) is the one business function that, in many organizations, is more vulnerable to fraud than any other. That is because all funds that flow out of the organization must first pass through AP. And over time, dishonest insiders and vendors have created newer and craftier methods of stealing from organizations by exploiting control weaknesses in the AP function.Result: It is more important ..