Financial Services and Trading

State and Local Income Tax Issues
In this practical webinar, you will learn with the expansion of the Internet, more and more companies are performing work out of their home state. It’s important to get a basic understanding of state and local tax issues in order to help guide clients in these other states as well as their home states.Upon course completion, you will be able to:Determine where nexus is and if it existsFigure out sales and u..

Strategic Accounts Receivable Management
Strategic AR Management is today’s AR Management with its focus on the customer experience and driving revenue. Other benefits such as lower operating costs, shorter cycle times, and improved cash flow are also realized. Strategic Management of Accounts Receivable (AR) delivers much more value to a company than traditional Transactional Management of AR.This is accomplished by the following actions/programs..

Streamlining the Month-End Closing Process
We will share best practices for closing the books, performing period-end analysis, and producing financial reports within 2 days of the month-end. We will discuss the key reasons for closing and reporting delays and how to overcome these obstacles to improve your closing process and timeline. Every business needs timely reporting at month-end, quarter-end, and year-end. Publicly traded companies have prosc..

The Anxiety Antidote: How to Use Brain Science to Go from Stress to Success
Sonia Satra's mind-body webinar The Anxiety Antidote: How to Use Brain Science to Go from Stress to Success is a fun, high-content program that gives your audience the practical tools they need to free themselves from stress and step into their most creative, productive selves. As the former star of Guiding Light and One Life to Live, Sonia knows a thing or two about performing at her best. The same challen..

The Importance of Cash Flow and How to Forecast Cash Flow
Why is the Statement of Cash Flows so important and what will you learn from analyzing it. In this session, you will learn about the three parts of the Statement of Cash Flows and we will break each one down accordingly. You will understand that a company can show their sales increasing every year and also show they are making profits. However, if they cannot generate cash flow from their daily operations t..

The Overall Approach to a Systems-Based Audit
This webinar provides internal auditors with important information about how to approach their company’s audit of internal controls. It presents an overview of the current role of the modern professional internal auditor with an emphasis on its primary role of opening on the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls. It shows the purpose and detail steps involved in an audit of the systems of int..

The Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking (SAFE) Act of 2019 and the Protections It Provides
This webinar will discuss the background and purpose of the proposed Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Act of 2019. You will learn how a depository institution will be provided with a safe harbor when dealing with a cannabis-related legitimate business or service provider, the protections in place for ancillary businesses, the protections under federal law, the requirements of filing a suspicious activity ..

The Suspicious Activity Process: How to Identify, Monitor, and Report Suspicious Activity, to include How to Write a Good Suspicious Activity Report
Every day in your branch situations occur which are considered "suspicious" and may even put your employees and customers into what we will call a "felony moment." If your customer asks "Should I deposit this money?" The answer your officer gives may encourage the customer to structure, and that is a problem for both the customer and the employee. This program will answer commonly asked frontline questions ..

UDAAP And The Risks
During this webinar, we will review a definition of an unfair act or practice, and unfair and deceptive credit under UDAAP, and unfair debt collection under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Due to the ever-changing regulatory landscape for financial institutions, rules & regulations that address UDAAP are important to understand. Discrimination is becoming a topic that learners need to understand..

Writing Focused, Credible and Authoritative Audit Observations
This webinar will provide the basic principles for writing effective audit observations. The audit observations represent the result of weeks of reviews, analyses, interviews, and discussions. It is used to provide important information to management on the area you reviewed. And, more importantly, it provides details to management on significant issues that need to be addressed. How well you communicate th..