Banking Financial Services and Insurance
Rolling Forecasts the New Way to Budget
The current technology-driven turbulent business environment presents many challenges to business managers. One primary challenge is the ability to predict and plan for the future which is unexpectedly unpredictable. Changes are constant. Companies struggle to find ways to find manage resources and find ways to thrive and survive in this turbulent business environment. Traditional budgeting has been overtak..
Seven Habits of an Effective Credit Administration
This audio session by Dev Strischek is intended to provide guidance on how to develop and maintain a Credit Administration (CA) function that will provide guidance to anyone involved in the credit function of the bank. The session also highlights the safeguards to manage the bank’s loan portfolio in a safe and sound manner. CA supports credit risk management by watching over credit policy, credit analysis a..
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..
Tax Logic: The Foundational Legal Framework
The seminar will explain the law, the underlying legal principles, and the logic for both used by tax authorities and by the courts in evaluating, judging, and enforcing the law.Fundamental issues like recognition of income, allowance of deductions, proper and improper capitalization, permissible depreciation and amortization methods, qualifications for credits, and differences between civil tax enforcement..
Teaching Your Front Line Staff How to Ask BSA Questions
This Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) training program will explain how to train your frontline staff to ask BSA questions. It will cover Currency Transaction Reports (CTR), Monetary Instrument Log, and Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) scenarios and questions, and much more.A financial institution’s front-line staff is the staff who usually has the most contact with customers and as such this staff has the opportuni..
The ABC’s of Completing the Annual ACH Rules Compliance Audit
The NACHA Operating Rules and Guidelines require that all participating depository financial institutions, third-party senders and third-party service providers that provide ACH services conduct an annual ACH audit to be performed by December 31 of each year (ACH Rules, Appendix Eight). By each participant performing the annual ACH audit, this helps to ensure that electronic payments work safely and efficie..
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 Basics Of The UCC Process
The Uniform Commercial Code was created to minimize risk and make it more attractive for companies to extend credit. It provides creditors protection in the event of their customers’ default or bankruptcy.Attend this webinar to learn how UCC filings can offer:PROTECTION when your customer files Chapter 7, Chapter 11, or defaultsOPPORTUNITIES to take first priority in your inventory or equipmentAN INCREASE i..
The Credit Manager’s Tool Box – Tools and Techniques for Making Sound Credit Decisions
Credit Expert with 30 Years of Experience Offers Tools and Techniques to Help You Navigate through Credit Information and Financial Data to Make Good Credit DecisionsThis webinar will provide guidance on how gather information, evaluate it, and make sound credit decisions on prospective clients and existing borrowers You will also learn the differences between unaudited and audited financials and how to use..
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 ..
The “New NAFTA”: The USMCA
The North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comprises Canada, the U.S., and Mexico, an agreement that has eliminated barriers to trade, promoted conditions of fair competition, increased investment opportunities, provided protection for intellectual property rights, and established procedures for the resolution of disputes.The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), commonly referred to as the “Ne..