U.S. Export Regulations and Documentation: The Basics You Must Know
The U.S. Government requires exporters to be familiar with export laws and regulations as well as documentation for a number of different reasons, including national security, control of products in short supply, compiling export statistics, administration of export laws, protection of endangered species, and to protect U.S. export markets by ensuring product quality of specific exports.Exporting from the U..
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,..
Advanced Project Management Tips & Best Practices for Admins
Refine your organizational skills to keep your projects on time, on budget, and on target. You've learned the basic techniques of project management. You've mastered the planning, executing, reviewing, and revising skills making the difference between success and absolute failure. You are good at getting the different players and stakeholders to provide information or direction and to show up for important ..
Development & Submission for a Generic Drug
Generic drugs provide an important benefit to patients through reducing drug costs. Developing the generic drug for a marketing application may follow different pathways, and give rise to unique challenges, depending on the active-drug, selected raw materials dosage form, and available bioanalytical methods among others. This webinar will review the basic requirements and steps to be followed for all generi..
Harnessing the Power of Diversity
Our world is becoming more diverse every day. Diversity is broadly defined to include persons from different races, ethnicities, religions, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, and physical and mental abilities. Studies strongly indicate that diverse organizations have a competitive edge in the world. Nonetheless, there are challenges to creating a diverse workforce. In short-term organizations may exp..
Unrelated Business Income Tax – Updates under TCJA
This topic will start off with a general understanding of what is unrelated business income. It will look deeply into how to tell if income streams are related or unrelated to the non-for-profits mission along with the other rules that could exempt the income from this category.We will also look at how to calculate the unrelated business income tax under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The TCJA made it so non-fo..
How IFRS Will Change SOX Controls
With International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), public company executives remain personally responsible for their public company’s financial statements on a consolidated basis and for the effectiveness of their internal controls.This presentation will help you make sure your company remains compliant with SOX. You will become acquainted with the latest information regarding IFRS and will review how..
Import Regulations and Documentation: The Necessary Basics
The U.S. government monitors regulate and collect import duties on merchandise entering the United States. The agency with the primary responsibility for the effort is U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Not to understand the basics of importing guarantees serious trouble for the importer.Goods may be imported to the United States subject to i..
Productive Work Environments: Creating a High-Performance Work Culture
This program will examine the best practices of high-performance work cultures through the “GRAPH IT“ approach toward success. By integrating culture with these seven tools, your organization will promote an atmosphere of engaged workers who see the value in their productivity, who are mindful in their tasks, who enjoy their jobs (even when doing less than fun tasks), and who are rewarded for a job well don..
Solving Statistical Mysteries - What Does FDA Want?
FDA’s guidance and regulations have emphasized the use of statistics for many years. Statistical thinking and methods are an integral part of the Jan 2011 FDA Process Validation Guidance. It can be argued that the FDA is looking for the pharma and biotech industries to make even greater use of statistical thinking and methods. Even with this long history, the use of statistics seems to be a source of uncert..
Consumer Protection in Banking : Understanding the Rules
We will review in detail the consumer protection obligations that Banks and Credit Unions are subject to under Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act, and the Fair Housing Act (FHA); the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, (ECOA) and other applicable laws, and under regulations made by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) established by Congress using powers that those laws have delegated to the CFPB. We ..
Data Analysis in Excel – Working with Multiple Datasets
In the recent past, it was necessary to have some coding skills, an available data analyst or some very strong VLOOKUP skills in order to join related datasets to perform meaningful data analysis. With the new Get & Transform tools and Power Query (which you probably already have, but don’t know it!), you can do this sort of thing yourself with a few clicks. Over the past several versions of Excel, Micr..
How to Help Change the Culture of Compliance
The compliance culture of an organization is really important. It’s not about purely ticking the box to appease regulators. It is something, if done right, can have a real positive impact on your organization. If done wrong, the culture and regulatory impact can be severe. Don’t get into this predicament.The Compliance culture of an organization sets the tone for an organization. Without a positive environm..
Identifying Potential Deception by Job Candidates
Hiring talent…the right talent…is one of the most critical functions needed for your company’s success. Unfortunately, many job candidates are not 100% truthful or accurate in how they present themselves to potential hiring managers. This webinar will help you uncover potential “red flags” in job candidates and determine whether the inaccuracies in their resumes, interview responses or even reference checks..
Implementing an Effective Succession Planning Program
Fortune 500 companies and small family businesses alike share a business need - ensuring that they have the talent necessary to effectively lead their organizations in the future. One of the most significant contributions a leader can make is insuring his/her business’ continuity and sustainability - by having employees who are willing and capable of filling each key position with a plan for doing so when t..