Banks and Credit Unions
Business Analytics for Decision Making – Making it Work
This presentation focuses on how the finance and accounting function can leverage analytics, especially predictive ones, embedded in their financial reporting, planning, and decision making.Finance and accounting professionals are typically considered to be very quantitative. They are by nature number-crunchers. But collecting, validating, and reporting data is not the same thing as analyzing the informatio..
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Evaluating Fraud Risk – Sarbanes-Oxley Through the Years
In this webinar, we delve into the dynamic landscape of fraud risk evaluation, focusing on the evolution and impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) over the years. We will explore the origins of SOX, its objectives, and the subsequent amendments that have shaped its role in combating financial fraud. We will begin with a comprehensive overview of fraud, emphasizing its significance in the corporate world. W..
Key US AML Regulation Changes for 2024: Important for Compliance Staff
These changes will keep us busy and require us to make applicable updates to our internal documents, systems, policies and procedures, and reference materials. And don't forget about any special projects that may occur as well throughout the year.It’s important to understand these changes, but we must also understand the implications for our financial institutions, particularly for individual staff members...
Financial Projections for Determining Long-Term Cash Flow Repayment Ability
The session will explain the importance of revenues in projecting financial statements and cash flow. Then the session will show participants how to project the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow to calculate the loan amount needed to support projection and evaluate the ability of the borrower to repay the loan. Evaluation of underlying assumptions includes the feasibility of revenue growth rate..
UDAAP Examination Procedures: recent revisions included!
During this webinar, we will discuss the intricacies of the revised UDAAP examination procedures, especially in terms of evaluating potential discrimination within the unfairness framework. We also go over the current regulatory climate and what to expect from examiners in 2024. Areas Covered Overview and background of UDAAPCurrent regulatory environmentChanges to the examination proceduresIdentify steps to..
Cash Fraud – Don’t Let it Walk Out the Door!
This webinar is a strategic guide for businesses and financial professionals to understand, detect, and prevent cash fraud risks. As cash remains a vulnerable asset, it's crucial for organizations to fortify their defenses against fraudulent activities that could impact their financial stability. Participants will gain practical insights, tools, and best practices to safeguard their cash assets and establis..
14 Credit Discipline Tools for Diagnosing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Organization’s Credit Culture
Successful credit risk management relies on a strong credit culture to support and execute strategies and policies. In turn, the culture relies on some basic tools to maintain its strength. These 14 tools offer an expedient way to test the quality of credit risk management but also serve as techniques for remediating and improving credit culture and credit risk management.Learning ObjectivesDefine and expla..
Analyzing Financial Statements
You will learn all about how to start the analysis process, how the FASB and SEC operate together and where you can find audited financial statements and how to retrieve them. We will cover auditor’s opinions and what they mean. We will discuss the objectives of analysis management, learn tools and techniques such as common sizing financial statements and trend analysis. We will cover the five categories of..
Basics of Asset Based Lending (ABL)
Asset-based lending (often referred to as “ABL”) is a form of commercial lending designed to finance safely the working capital needs of a borrower whose cash flow currently may not support debt repayment. Like other commercial loans, cash flow is the primary repayment source for an asset-based loan but with a stronger reliance on the company's assets as collateral and firmer control over the receipts of th..
Basics of Forensic Accounting
Whether you are involved in evaluating the creditworthiness of a prospective customer, analyzing investment opportunities, or even beginning to suspect that something funny is going on in your own company, this session will give you the tools to determine what is really going on. It's not just about the financial statements, this presentation will show you how to conduct a preliminary investigation will hel..
Best Practices for Preventing Credit Card Fraud
This Webinar describeHistory of credit cards in corporate America - Why companies have decided to use credit cards for their employee’s - How to control cash and spending on credit cards - Pro’s and Con’s of issuing corporate credit cardsDifferences in Corporate credit cards - Individual Liability card versus Corporate Liability card - What companies are eligible for corporate..
BSA Reporting Requirements
BSA regulations require all financial institutions to submit five types of reports. Individuals or companies must file an individual filing requirement. We will go over more details later on in this presentation. They are: Currency transaction reports (CTR)Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) Foreign financial accounts (FBAR)Currency and Monetary Instrument Report (CMIR)Designation of Exempt PersonAreas Covered..
Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs): How to Deal with Common Issues for Filing
Under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), there are reporting obligations for financial institutions doing business in the US. A currency transaction report is one of those obligations. A CTR must be filled out whenever a customer conducts a currency transaction over $10,000. There are some exemptions which we will go over as well. Remember with CTRs, it is a form we file to help prevent money laundering, We are go..
Deep Dive into Financial Ratios
During many years of evaluating companies there are many things that you find are not as they seem after breaking down a balance sheet, income statement or statement of cash flows. If you do not have the skills to properly analyze the companies’ financial statements, you could end up losing a large customer to bankruptcy or granting a loan and the company defaults on it. In the webinar you will learn how re..
EFT Act and Regulations E in 2023
We will explore all aspects of regulation E, plus discuss how this rule impacts your day-to-day responsibilities. You will learn how to comply with the Electronic Fund Transfers Act In 2023.This webinar will focus on the background of Electronic Fund Transfers Act, as well as recent developments that affect electronic transfers. We will also cover disclosures, error resolution, gifts and the examination sid..