Webinars

The Call Report is a dynamic and ever-changing document in the realm of financial reporting. Over the past few years, we've been on a continuous journey of adaptation, carefully addressing and implementing extensive alterations and updates to this crucial report. The financial landscape is not static, and regulatory authorities regularly introduce modifications to ensure accurate and transparent reporting. As we look ahead, we acknowledge that the journey of change continues and we must continue to be proactive and adaptive to those changes

"It's ALL about the reporting" - I say hundreds of times a year when asked about policy and procedures on IRAs. Sometimes we fail to connect the frontline transactions to the end result, and therefore how it reports to the IRS. If we don't understand the transaction descriptions when we are coding an IRA transaction, there's a good chance it won't report correctly to the IRS - sometimes resulting in a letter and bill issued to the customer.

This course will give understandable, pertinent examples from various auditing disciplines to learn how to remedy the greatest roadblocks to clear thinking through writing. It will also show you how to cultivate a convincing, authoritative style. You will leave this webinar with excellent resources that you can continually turn to during intense, complex audit engagements.

Loan information on the Call Report provides critical information for bank management and regulators. The rules for coding loans reported on Schedule RC-C dictate how loans are to be reported on all loan schedules in the Call Report, including the income statement, charge-offs and recoveries, averages, past due loans and non-accrual loans.

Financial reporting is often rife with repetitive tasks and carries the risk of misstated numbers. In this webcast, Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, will show you ways to create an utilize financial reporting templates, both as workbooks and worksheets, that you can use as clean slates. You'll also see how to create financial reports from a general ledger report by way of using pivot tables. You can then filter the pivot table with both the Slicer and Timeline features. Each month you'll simply save over the existing general ledger report and your spreadsheet-based reports will update automatically.

In this webinar, you'll enhance your knowledge and skills for precise and reliable reporting on Schedule RC and Schedule RI.

CFPB has been hot on the trail of junk fees - is your institution at risk? Join us as we look at supervisory guidance from the regulators and lessons learned on consent orders.

In this presentation, Excel expert David H. Ringstrom, CPA, cherry-picks 10 of the best features in Excel that can make accountants more productive. He'll also share 3 common time-wasters that can frustrate accountants and heavy users of Excel. You'll learn about two key worksheet functions, the benefits of the Table feature, pivot tables for report writing, and managing information overload by filtering. Tame unwieldy workbooks by instantly unhiding all hidden worksheets, and then deploying Excel's Custom Views feature to enable you to hide/unhide multiple worksheets at once. You'll see how to build in some insurance against Excel crashes, and quickly identify duplicates within a list. David will also discuss three common timewasters/frustrations in Excel.

Some people might think that regulatory attention to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) had decreased over the past couple of years, given other difficulties and areas of concern, such as fair lending, TRID, HMDA, and UDAP. Think again. With the safety and soundness of the entire industry the focus of news stories every day and many well-publicized enforcement actions, the regulators obviously haven't eased up. These rules are still very close to being the #1 issue facing compliance officers. This is a timely topic, as we are now seeing the full implementation of the Beneficial Owner Information (BOI) rules, including the Treasury Department’s new registry, access to that registry, and impending rules on how to incorporate these requirements into banks’ Customer Due Diligence (CDD) programs.