Internal Audit and Controls Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

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 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.

Skilled auditors require a method that aligns what they experienced during the reviewing process with what they compose during the writing process. This report writing workshop will provide foundation resources that participants can continually turn to during intense, complex audit engagements.

This training program will help articulate your business objectives and define the scope of your risk assessment. It will guide attendees in identifying the most appropriate risk assessment technique and plan and facilitate a risk assessment. Further, the session will help tailor a risk matrix to enable you to rate your risks.

This training program will detail why SR Letter 11-7 has become the gold standard for model risk management, with its principle being adopted not only by banks but also virtually all U.S. financial institutions.

This anti-money laundering training will describe the reasons and methods of money laundering in financial institutions. This will help attendees to protect themselves from regulatory risk by establishing an effective anti-money laundering system within their financial institution.

Vendor risk management is an important component of a financial institution’s operational risk management program. This training program will examine how a sound vendor risk management program, including careful planning, due diligence and selection, and close oversight and monitoring during the life of the contract, is necessary to reduce the risks posed by the outsourcing of critical functions.

This training program will discuss how purchasing cards (P Cards) provide a means for streamlining the procure-to-pay process, allowing organizations to procure goods and services in a timely manner, reduce transaction costs, track expenses, take advantage of supplier discounts, reduce or redirect staff in the purchasing and/or accounts payable departments, reduce or eliminate petty cash, and more. It will also illustrate how a P-Card program can create additional fraud risk and requires robust policies, procedures, and internal controls.

Understand the paradigm shift in credit risk, market risk and risk regulation. In this webinar training, we will prescribe an antidote against the dust of old risk management thinking, and submit views on what the post-crisis risk management ideas may be.

This fraud training program will focus on understanding the fraud problem and what propels employees to commit fraud. The course will also offer essential fraud detection tools and techniques and highlight best practices for developing and implementing anti-fraud controls.

This webinar training on stress testing in financial institutions will depict scenarios, pitfalls to be avoided, and discuss how the choice of the right scenarios can provide good insight into strategic management of a financial institution.

This training program will guide attendees on what it takes to become a successful controller. The program will help identify the primary functions and responsibilities of the controller and how your role will change as you move into this position.

This training program will define and discuss the bowtie risk assessment method used to analyze and establish causal relationships in high risk scenarios. Named after the shape of the diagram created, bowties provide an excellent visual representation of the potential causes and consequences of a risk scenario and help ensure that all relevant information is identified and properly assessed.

This training program will facilitate participants’ understanding of fraud risks, detecting fraud indicators, gathering evidence to substantiate suspicions of actual wrongdoing and eliminating control weaknesses in all pertinent business functions.

This webinar will explain concept of ACH, how it works, rationale for choosing it and how it differs from US domestic ACH. It will also discuss what International Payments Framework Association (IPFA) is and how does it address International ACH issues. Instructor will cover the relevance of Customer benefits and value proposition regarding ACH and why it should be preferred over wire transfers.

This AML training will provide you the tools to identify the differences between money laundering and terrorist financing and how to protect your financial institute against potential criminal activity. It will also highlight the complexities of modern day proactive compliance departments.

This webinar will address the red flags that may indicate money laundering and fraud in non-bank financial institutions. It will also provide guidelines for conducting enhanced due diligence (EDD).

This training program will offer attendees an understanding of record schedule defensibility and best practices to take steps toward improvements. The IRS states entities need to be fully informed of the code relating to Record Retention and Destruction to determine what records are necessary to stay in compliance or face fines. According to IRS and state statistics of the entities audited over the past three years, 82% could not supply adequate records to pass an audit - resulting in substantial fines for non-compliance.

This webinar will explain the concept of Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), including EDD time tables and checklist. Attendees will learn how to conduct Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) that will satisfy the auditors.

This unique and interactive workshop will analyze real time case studies from all components of the procure to pay (P2P) process that include: procurement, T&E, P-Card, AP, and disbursements. Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss what went wrong and will determine the key internal controls that were missing. The instructor will highlight the three critical corporate controls, the standards of internal control for P2P, and the top twenty controls for AP.