Accounting and Taxation Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

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).

This webinar will go through every section of the revised FFIEC Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual to highlight changes and areas where banks should review their internal policies, processes and procedures for compliance. Understanding these changes will keep you prepared and updated for your next BSA/AML examination.

This training program will help attendees approach the writing situation with a clear and useful strategy. It will include strategies to fuse the purpose of the summary with the issues that matter to your audience. Attendees will also learn to sort ideas to clarify key points and craft paragraphs that reinforce the intent of the executive summary.

For years the IRS has struggled with the independent contractor and tax collection. In assessing opportunities to close the tax gap (taxes due but not reported or paid), one of the greatest opportunities comes from expanding the information reporting on taxpayers by payors – the 1099. This time-consuming reporting obligation can be streamlined in a number of ways. Join us to learn more…

The Nacha Operating Rules are always changing. With an Operations Bulletin (issued March 2023) regarding updates to the WSUD and details on a RFC (Request for Comment) plus an RFI (Request or Information) – this is a must attend session!

This BSA/AML (Bank Secrecy Act/ Anti Money Laundering) compliance training will help attendees understand, identify and mitigate the risks associated with high risk transactions.

This BSA compliance training on Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) will provide details on how to prepare a SAR (Suspicious Activity Reporting) narrative that meets examiner scrutiny and provides necessary detail for law enforcement.

This training on business writing will provide attendees tools and tips for effectively writing financial documents for diverse audiences. Learn best practices for getting an immediate response to any written document.

This training program will help find answers to many struggles with Stop Payments and Unauthorized Entries. These are still the number one issues in the exception processing of ACH transactions on a daily basis. This 90-minute session will definitely help clear things up on processing unauthorized, authorization revoked and stop payments!

This webinar will prepare your staff for this filing year, improve your employee reporting set-up and maintenance practices, and reduce your risk of complaints from the IRS. Learn the latest updates on Form W-4 and Form W-2 wage and withholding reporting.

Learn the best practices for eliminating 1099 error notices from the IRS. Discover the power of the TIN Matching system. Discover the smoothest way to register to use the two step verification process introduced 12/10/17. Learn how to handle the CP-2100 notices from Uncle Sam and avoid the fines & penalties for failure to timely comply with the B-Notice requirements. Understand the difference between and 1st and 2nd B-Notice and the related differences in required vendor responses. Be sure you institute and stop Backup Withholding when required. Join us for a content-rich 2-hours and you will gain the tools to make you the most effective information return manager your company has ever seen.

This personal and business tax returns analysis training program will focus on key areas such as 1040 federal tax returns, K-1 forms, and tax code updates and how they affect bank’s clients. It will also discuss the structure of a C corporation, S corporation, and Partnership (including LLC) tax return.

This webinar will discuss common deficiencies that are discovered in compilation and review engagements, as a result of peer review. It will explain the difference between minor deficiencies and major deficiencies. Instructor will discuss how to avoid these common mistakes and what the most common deficiencies are.

This training on BSA compliance will help you understand the concept of tax evasion and tax fraud and the difference between the two. Learn the best practices to identify tax fraud and how to report suspicious activity.

This webinar training will explore multiple models of both business and personal (business owner) cash flow analyses. Various cash flow projections and sensitivity analyses will also be explored. The webinar will conclude with commercial real estate (CRE) cash flow analysis and other related real estate investment cash flow models.

This webinar will refresh your understanding of bookkeeping engagements as well as guidance on withdrawing from an engagement, documentation required, fraud considerations, and internal control. It is important to have control processes for bookkeeping engagements just as we do for attest functions.

This training program will detail how to create a bullet-proof AP operation that is setup to detect and proactively prevent fraud from occurring. During this session, the webinar presenter will discuss real cases of AP fraud and the controls that organizations later realized needed to be added to their AP operation, unfortunately too late to prevent these costly incidents. In addition to discussing good controls, he will also discuss common controls that are ineffective, provide no value, or even leave AP departments with a false sense of security while they are in reality still very much exposed.

In this training program attendees will learn how to manage nonresident alien payee' tax issues in compliance with IRS information reporting and backup withholding requirements for NRAs. Also attendees will learn the five variations of forms W-8 including the new W-8BEN-E just released in Q1-2014. It will help attendees establish which W-8 to provide NRAs working for them.

This training program will provide financial professionals guidance on key ratio analysis . It will also detail a five-step analysis plan to calculate the key ratios covering liquidity, activity, leverage, operating performance, and cash flow analysis.

This webinar seeks to provide a solid foundation to all parties involved in foreign exchange activities whether at executive, marketing, audit or operational levels into how the actual trading processes work, what the risks are and how these can be mitigated by using clearly defined standards of best practice.