Accounting Principles Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

For years the IRS has struggled with the independent contractor and tax collection. In assessing opportunities to close the tax gap (taxes due but not reported or paid), one of the greatest opportunities comes from expanding the information reporting on taxpayers by payors – the 1099. This time-consuming reporting obligation can be streamlined in a number of ways. Join us to learn more…

This training program will help find answers to many struggles with Stop Payments and Unauthorized Entries. These are still the number one issues in the exception processing of ACH transactions on a daily basis. This 90-minute session will definitely help clear things up on processing unauthorized, authorization revoked and stop payments!

This webinar will discuss common deficiencies that are discovered in compilation and review engagements, as a result of peer review. It will explain the difference between minor deficiencies and major deficiencies. Instructor will discuss how to avoid these common mistakes and what the most common deficiencies are.

For manufacturers and retailers inventory is one of the most valuable assets on the balance sheet. The cost of inventory is one of the largest expenses on the income statement. Practitioners and members in industry will benefit from this training program’s comprehensive guidance on inventory accounting issues.

This training program will provide financial professionals guidance on key ratio analysis . It will also detail a five-step analysis plan to calculate the key ratios covering liquidity, activity, leverage, operating performance, and cash flow analysis.

Key Performance Indicators and Metrics provide your AP or Procurement operation with vital information that you can use to measure success and drive process improvement. In this webinar we will discuss how to create a culture of continuous improvement within your operation using metrics.

This training program will answer questions related to IFRS financial statements and compare them to GAAP based statements using numbers from examples that come from every-day life. The course will also analyze the four key principles of IFRS and the cash flow statement, and discuss using financial statement notes to decode the numbers.

This training program will provide the banker with an effective overview of the basics/refresher of accounting. With the tools reviewed in this webinar, the often complex world of accounting will be presented in a straight-forward and useful manner. This is a must for all bankers looking to improve their knowledge of the vital discipline of accounting.

This training program will explore how the initiatives that have the most value and result in true continuous improvement efforts are often the ones that are developed by a specific operational area such as accounts payable. If a metrics program is developed by the business owner of an operation, the results will be well defined and will represent the process components very well and will help to drive results. With a real time dashboard, actions can be immediately taken based on the results.

This training program will discuss how getting rid of the paper can increase your department’s efficiency and decrease overall long term costs. Some of these efforts will involve upfront costs or systems or your time to create and implement while others can be done immediately by taking advantage of improving technology offered by others. But even introducing just a few of them will reduce the paper in your department.

This webinar will enhance your knowledge of SOX Section 404 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404) by helping you understand the elements of an internal controls system. Internal controls are a key part of any organization's continued growth, performance and success. With fraud at an all-time high, a well-designed internal control structure will enhance operations by improving your department's overall security and effectiveness. SOX Section 404 mandates that all publicly-traded companies must establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting and must document, test and maintain those controls and procedures to ensure their effectiveness.

Revenue Recognition Rules are changing! Over the next three years companies will undergo a major change in recording revenue. This training program will help you to gain an understanding of the elements of New Revenue Recognition Rules, so you can prepare for this change by developing a program management team, updating business processes and internal controls, learning dependencies on data, and developing your revenue automation updates and IT involvement for the new standard.

Rather than focus on the computations and tactics of each of the statements, this training program will cover the important concepts of how the statements interact and relate to each other providing management with the critical information needed to manage financial stability of their organization. It is important professionals recognize that no one statement tells the complete story, but combined they provide a powerful tool for management.

This webinar training will explain the process of internal controls in account payable operation as per COSO framework, why it is required and how to effectively implement it across organisation. Participants will learn how to master internal AP controls : preventive and corrective, to mitigate risk, ensure information system security and prevent fraud.

This training on detecting and preventing accounts payable payment fraud will explain the several types of payment fraud that occur in today’s business environment. It will provide you the tools to safeguard your accounts payable process from potential fraud.

This training program is designed to ensure that businesses maximize the available deductions for travel and entertainment expenses. It is important to remain current on these regulations as the Internal Revenue Service focuses a fair amount of effort in this area during audits.

This training program will help set you on your way to writing the procedures for your payroll department. By showing how cutting the task down into 30-minute increments increases your efficiency, attendees will learn to write procedures in hours instead days and weeks.

This webinar discusses 10 areas of wage and hour and tax law that when misunderstood or applied incorrectly causes employees to be paid or taxed incorrectly with the resulting penalties, fines and interest levied on the employer. Some of these wage and hour law misconceptions can even cause the employer to overpay employees forcing unnecessarily higher labor costs.

From calculating DSO and DSI and planning for seasonal adjustments to using Excel date arithmetic to schedule payables, receivables and cash flow, this training program will assist attendees in effectively constructing the monthly cash flow forecast using Excel.

This training program will help attendees recognize the risks of failing to thoroughly vet the information received from a business loan applicant that project future revenues, profits and cash flows. Attendees will also learn to track cash through a business operation, dissect the cash cycle of the operation, and comply with SBA standards concerning expected cash flow attributes of loan applicants.