Banks and Credit Unions
Fair Lending Compliance - An Overview of and What It Means for Your Financial Institution
Failing to follow the fair lending compliance regulations can result in civil money penalties, restrictions on branching and significant reputational damage for an institution. During this webinar, we will go through each of the regulations that fall under Fair Lending and take look at the latest developments in regulatory compliance.Areas Covered Overview of Fair LendingIllegal Discrimina..
Fraud In Banking
Management has a responsibility to be familiar with and alert to the types of fraud that might occur in their area and to put in place effective controls to avoid such occurrences. Management should also provide support to and work with the Internal Audit Division, other areas in a financial institution by reporting and investigation of dishonest or fraudulent activity, including the prosecution of offender..
How to Develop, Prepare, Analyze and Present an Outstanding Capital Expenditure Proposal
Join us to learn about the latest and most accurate methods for performing capital expenditure (CAPEX) analyses. Learn how to establish your hurdle rate (minimum acceptable rate of return) for your CAPEX projects and which metric most fairly represents the true expected rate of return on your projects. Receive our standardized CAPEX model for use in performing future analyses.Areas CoveredIdentify your true..
How to Perform a Sound Credit Review With Limited Information
This webinar will cover the entire credit process from how to set up an account, how to decide what payment terms they should receive all the way to how best to collect from a delinquent account. The webinar outlines steps for the following processes:Credit application - what is needed in the body of your credit application so that your company is covered should there be a lawsuit, or the customer goes to c..
Key Ratio analysis for Bankers
The best tool to help make a sound credit decision is to get audited financial statements from your customer. If you have them there is no gray area about the numbers you are reviewing, assuming you have audited financial statements with a unqualified opinion. In this webinar we will go over financial ratios that can be used from looking at the: Income statement, Balance sheet and Statement of cash flows. I..
Lease Capitalization - How Lease Capitalization Impacts Borrower Leverage, Liquidity, Profitability, and Repayment Ability
Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) do not change often, but when they do, we need to understand how changes in GAAP effects borrowers’ and clients’ ability to repay. GAAP now requires that companies capitalize their leases, and that may worsen their leverage, reduce their liquidity, lower their profitability, and reduce their ability to repay.This webinar will explain why lease capitaliza..
Mastering the Art of Making Sound Credit Choices
Are you a credit manager, credit analyst, or collection specialist looking to sharpen your skills and make more informed credit decisions? Join our exclusive webinar, "Mastering the Art of Credit Decisions: A Roadmap to Success," and take your credit analysis expertise to the next level.In this dynamic and informative session, we will guide you through the entire credit decision-making process, equipping yo..
Preparing for Successful Pre-IND FDA Meeting
FDA and regulatory guidelines allow for formal meetings between the FDA and sponsors or applicants to discuss the development and review of an investigational new drug (IND) application for drugs or biologic products. This meeting, known as a pre-IND meeting, is intended to address specific questions related to the initial US clinical study (also known as a first-in-human [FIH] study for new drugs and biolo..
Regulatory Compliance on Deposits
During this session, we will explore consumer compliance regulations for deposits in our current regulatory climate and the impact they have on institutions and clients. Specifically, we will go over the following regulations:Regulation D: Reserve RequirementsRegulation DD: Truth in Savings ActRegulation CC: Funds Availability ActRegulation E: Electronic Funds Transfer ActAreas CoveredNecessary plan updates..
Why EBITDA Doesn’t Spell Cash Flow But What Does
EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) is a popular measure of cash flow, but it is not accurate, and bankers and investors who rely on it as a reliable indicator of repayment ability will be deeply disappointed.This session will explain why EBITDA does not measure cash flow. and what more accurate measures are available?Learning Objectives Learn how to ca..
Writing Effective Audit Observations
This webinar will provide the basic principles for writing effective audit observations. The audit observations represent the end 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 communicat..
AA Requirements for Banks
This webinar will cover the affirmative action compliance obligations that impact banks, including compliance obligations under Executive Order 11246 (affirmative action for women and minorities), Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (affirmative action for individuals with disabilities), VEVRAA (affirmative action for protected veterans), and Executive Order 13672 (prohibiting discrimination on th..
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..
Accounting on the Move: What Recent Changes in US GAAP Accounting Mean for Borrowers and Lenders
Much of the change in GAAP in recent years is the result of collaboration between the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to bring the US and international accounting principles closer together. At some point, both groups decided they were as close as they would be likely to get on several key concepts—revenue recognition, lease capitalization,..
ACH Debit Strategies in the Same Day ACH Environment - from the RDFI Perspective
This 90-minute session will focus on how when debits are added, and the impact this may have on ACH Processing – for the RDFI and the Receiver. Authorization language – the impact it has on Same Day Debits. On the Receiver side, If I authorize a payment today, or use the ACH card today, legacy ACH would debit my account tomorrow (at the earliest), as debits are next day. Things are different now – with Same..