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.

This webinar is designed for bankers seeking to gain an understanding of consolidation accounting and the preparation of a statement of cash flows.

How comprehensive is your BCM, have you reviewed current regulatory expectations and updated it to meet these expectations? This webinar will provide insight into what your BCM program should include and how recommendations on how to update it to meet and/or exceed examiner expectations.

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.

It’s been about six months since the CFPB dropped its Final Rule for the Small Business Lending Data Collection requirements (Section 1071). Preparing to comply with this Rule will require a lot of planning, training and procedural updates within your institution. You will first need to determine if you are a covered institution and then which of the mandatory compliance dates apply to your institution. The next step is diving into the actual data you will need to collect and report.

Learn what these tripwires are and prepare your institution for inquiries from the agencies as well as consumers Be sure to be prepared.

The CFPB (finally) issued its long-awaited Final Rule on Small Business Lending Data Collection, which will require lenders to collect and submit to the CFPB data around small business loan applications by June 1st of each year. But wait a minute, didn’t a federal judge halt its implementation? Not so fast – the whole issue is up in the air a bit, but lenders should not take this as a sign that the rule is going away. Far from it – the extra time should be used to make sure things are right.