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Webinar Alert!
Form 941 Update for 2025

📅 Date: April 16, 2025
🕒 Time: 01:00 pm EST | 10:00 am PST
⏳ Duration: 60 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/680/form-941-update-for-2025?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
Form 941 is vital for employers to report federal and F**A taxes. Accurate filing and reconciliation, including Schedule B, helps avoid IRS penalties and interest.

Why Attend?
Stay compliant with payroll tax rules and avoid penalties with a line-by-line Form 941 walkthrough. Learn key updates, IRS pitfalls, and how to file correctly, including COVID-19 credits in 2025.

Learning Objectives:
- Be able to better understand line by line of the Form 941.
- Understand details around updates to Form 941 and review common errors as reported by the IRS.
- Review of Schedule B and the importance of completing correctly
- Review of who should sign the Form 941
- Filing the Form 941 when taking the COVID-19 credits in 2025

Areas Covered:
- 941 Basic Requirements
- Reporting Requirements
- 941 Due Dates
- Electronic Filing
- Signing Requirements
- Line-by-line review including new tax credit lines
- Schedule B requirements and tips
- Reconciliation of Form 941 and W-2s at year-end

941

Webinar Alert!
ACH Death Notification Entries (DNEs) & Reclamations: Your Bank’s Liability

📅 Date: April 15, 2025
🕒 Time: 02:30 pm EST | 11:30 am PST
⏳ Duration: 90 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/681/ach-death-notification-entries-dnes-reclamations?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
The U.S. Treasury and partners now offer email delivery for ACH reclamations with mandatory ARPS responses. This session covers DNE handling, updated Green Book rules, and federal vs. commercial reclamation procedures.

Why Attend?
Discover how federal payment processing differs from NACHA rules in this power-packed 90-minute session! Learn to navigate DNEs and government reclamations with ease using the Green Book. Uncover key differences and liabilities between commercial and federal reclamations—don’t miss out!.

Learning Objectives:
- Detailed processes on handling Death Notification Entries (DNE's)
- Timeframes on returning ACH Entries when account holders are deceased
- Descriptions of return reason codes to use when returning federal government benefit payments for deceased account holders
- Correctly processing federal government reclamations
- Timeframes for responding to government reclamations
- Difference between commercial and government reclamations

Areas Covered:
- What is the Green Book and where is it located?
- Recent UPDATES to 31 CFR Part 210 and the Green Book
- Where in the Green Book do I find details on DNEs and government reclamations
- 31 CFR (Code of Federal Regulation) - Part 210 --- how this applies
- Process on properly handling Death Notification Entries (DNE's)
- Process on returning deceased account-holders federal government benefit payments
- Process on handling commercial reclamations, timeframes and returns
- Major differences for banks liability for commercial vs. federal government reclamations

Webinar Alert!
Performance Reviews – The Essentials of Conversations, Feedback, and Goal Setting

📅 Date: March 28, 2025
🕒 Time: 01:00 pm EST | 10:00 am PST
⏳ Duration: 60 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/191/performance-reviews-goals?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
Performance reviews create stress for everyone, but they can also be valuable tools for motivation and decision-making. Explore their importance, alternative formats, and supervisor training tips.

Why Attend?
Evaluations often frustrate employees and managers, but when done right, they drive growth and alignment. Poor ex*****on leads to disengagement and lower performance. Explore alternative methods and motivational theories for better results.

Learning Objectives:
- Discover Reasons Why Performance Reviews are Important
- Explore Format Options
- Understand the Importance of Established Processes and Checklists
- Examine the Value of Goal Setting
- Determine What Option Works Best for Your Organization
- Review Communications Skills for Constructive Conversations and Feedback Results

Areas Covered:
- What we Think about Performance Reviews
- What Performance Reviews are
- Purpose of Performance Reviews
- Format Options
- Design Considerations – 5 Suggestions
- Supervisor Training Content
- Best Ways to Execute Performance Reviews – Including SWOT Analysis, SMART goals, and PEKs

Webinar Alert!
Terms and Conditions on Contracts with Suppliers

📅 Date: March 27, 2025
🕒 Time: 02:30 pm EST | 11:30 am PST
⏳ Duration: 90 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/678/supplier-agreement-terms-and-conditions?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
Supplier contracts establish clear terms, accountability, and legal protection in business relationships. They cover pricing, payments, delivery, quality, warranties, and dispute resolution. Join our webinar on "Terms and Conditions on Contracts with Suppliers" to explore their impact on business operations.

Why Attend?
- Learn terms that may impact your contract and your employer.
- Get a head start on what to look out for in a common vendor agreement.
- Discover what terms to include to strengthen the position of your company or agency.
- Gain an understanding of what terms may be considered deal breakers vs. a business decision.
- Receive information on the importance of terms to prevent being held hostage by an underperforming vendor under contract.

Learning Objectives:
- Vendor terms to avoid
- Terms for you to include
- Terms that are business decisions
- Terms that may be non-negotiable

Areas Covered:
- Reviewing a Vendor Contract
- Preamble
- Payment Terms
- Term Dates & Renewals
- Scope of Work
- Necessary Clauses
- Clauses to Avoid
- Sample Language
- Q&A

Webinar Alert!
Independent Contractor vs Employee-New Rule Issued by The Department of Labor

📅 Date: March 27, 2025
🕒 Time: 01:00 pm EST | 10:00 am PST
⏳ Duration: 60 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/675/independent-contractor-vs-employee-2025-new-rules-by-dols?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
Misclassifying employees as independent contractors can cost millions in fines. Stay informed on the latest Department of Labor rules to protect your business!.

Why Attend?
- The new rules the Department of Labor will use to determine employee vs independent contractors
- The new guidelines are the safest way to use independent contractors
- What to include in independent contractor agreements.

Areas Covered:
- The new DOL six factor test on Independent Contractors vs Employees
- IRS Common Law Rules Regarding Independent Contractors
- ABC Common Law Method
- Differences in Financial Obligations
- Consequences of Misclassifying Employees as Independent Contractors
- Independent Contractor Agreements
- What's Going to Get You in Trouble
- Action Items.

Webinar Alert!
Leading Hybrid Teams: 10 Best Practices to Successfully Manage Your Team’s People, Priorities, Performance!

📅 Date: March 27, 2025
🕒 Time: 01:00 pm EST | 10:00 am PST
⏳ Duration: 60 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/672/managing-hybrid-teams-performance-best-practices?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
Hybrid work is here to stay, but making it truly effective is the real challenge. Join our webinar to master the best practices for leading high-performing hybrid teams!.

Why Attend?
Managing a hybrid team isn’t easy—communication, coordination, and accountability can be challenging. Join our webinar to learn proven strategies for success. Keep your team connected, engaged, and productive!.

Learning Objectives:
This highly informative webinar will focus on the key strategies and best practices for managers and supervisors to maximize their effectiveness in leading hybrid teams. The 7 learning objectives are:
- Examine the advantages and challenges of a hybrid workplace and teams.
Choose the best hybrid strategy for your organization: One size does not fit all.
- Learn the 3 major leadership responsibilities for managing a productive, engaged hybrid team.
- Recognize and put into practice six ways to help your hybrid employees feel connected within the team.
- Explore 10 ways managers can optimize their hybrid team’s processes, connect people, enhance performance.
- Answer these 7 questions to establish the team’s practices & protocols: how they can best get the work done.
- Understand, it’s not about the pieces but how we work together; learn how to foster a positive, productive culture.

Webinar Alert!
GAAP—Update on new Accounting Principles and How They Impact Your Borrowers’ Financials

📅 Date: March 26, 2025
🕒 Time: 01:00 pm EST | 10:00 am PST
⏳ Duration: 60 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/674/generally-accepted-accounting-principles-gaap-updates-2025?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
GAAP evolves as business and economic conditions change. Key updates include revenue recognition, lease capitalization, CECL, and nonprofit financial reporting. Learn how these changes impact borrowers and lenders.

Why Attend?
Stay updated on GAAP changes impacting financial assessments. Learn about revenue recognition, lease capitalization, and CECL. Understand their effects on borrowers and lenders.

Area Covered:
Background of FASB and IASB accounting convergence
• Close, but no cigar
• Differences still exist

Revenue recognition
• Seller recognizes revenue when buyer gets possession of good or service
• Generally sooner than later
• More emphasis on gross revenues, less netting revenues against expenses

Lease Capitalization
• Troublesome off-balance-sheet loophole finally plugged
• Whether operating or financing lease, both are capitalized
• Both lease liability and right of use (ROU) asset put on the balance sheet
• Higher leverage ratios, lower return on asset ratios
• Cash flow impacts

CECL
• Incurred loss replaced by loss over life of loan, so banks with large mortgage and consumer loans will have higher CECLs
• Higher probability of default, the smaller the borrower, and the longer the term
• CECL means higher provision for credit losses in financials of borrowers, not just bankers

Not-for-profits
• Balance sheet simplified
• More disclosure of liquidity

Webinar Alert!
Payments Fraud: Detect and Prevent Check, ACH, and P-Card

📅 Date: March 26, 2025
🕒 Time: 01:00 pm EST | 10:00 am PST
⏳ Duration: 60 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/671/detect-prevent-check-ach-and-p-card-fraud-payments?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
This webinar emphasizes the need to stay updated on payment schemes. Ignorance can lead to data breaches, check fraud, and account hijacking. Protect your business from evolving cyber threats.

Why Attend?
Stay ahead of evolving payment fraud with key insights and real case studies. Learn to detect internal and external threats, including ACH hijacking and social engineering. Gain practical strategies to assess risks and strengthen fraud prevention.

Learning Objectives:
- Who commits each major type of payment fraud—focusing on the check, ACH, and –P-Card schemes?
- Insight from investigating actual fraudsters
- Vendor/billing schemes that exploit payment process control weaknesses
- Latest electronic payment schemes (ACH hijacking, spear-phishing, social engineering and more)
- Check counterfeiting, forgery, and tampering schemes to be aware of
- How to detect common external payment schemes versus internal attacks?
- Conducting a cost-effective fraud risk assessment of your most commonly used payment methods
- Identify the critical red flags of all forms of check, ACH, and P-card fraud
- Detect payment fraud before material financial damage occurs
- Obtain optimal payment fraud prevention tools from your financial institution
- Recommend better payment fraud control structure including segregation of duties, employee background checks, and employee awareness training.

Webinar Alert!
Controller Challenges in Changing Times: New Roles of Controller as Strategic Partner

📅 Date: March 25, 2025
🕒 Time: 02:30 pm EST | 11:30 am PST
⏳ Duration: 75 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/632/financial-controller-challenges-as-a-strategic-partner?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
In today’s fast-changing business world, controllers must shift from number-crunching to strategic leadership. Success now depends on communication, problem-solving, and relationship-building. This webinar explores how controllers can evolve into key decision-makers and change leaders.

Why Attend?
Today’s fast-evolving business world demands more than number-crunching from controllers. Success comes from shifting focus to relationships, strategic leadership, and decision-making. This session explores how controllers can become true business partners, not just super accountants.

Learning Objectives:
- Analysis of information
- Ability to communicate
- Company and industry knowledge
- Leadership skills
- Ability to provide cost effective services
- Technical knowledge.

Area Covered:
- Controller’s expanded role in turbulent times
- Leadership tools & techniques
- How to become a trusted partner and an un-trusting official at the same time
- How to obsessively focus on customers, cost, and cash as key success factors
- How to manage and control the cash-to-cash cycle
- How to run the company with, and not by the numbers
- How to provide preferred financial information
- Key ratios and trends
- Use of rolling forecasts vs. traditional budgeting
- Essential elements of internal controls
- COVID-19 cares & concerns
- Coping with inflation in today’s turbulent environment
- New forecasting & budgeting techniques

Webinar Alert!
How to Write Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that Avoid Human Error

📅 Date: March 25, 2025
🕒 Time: 01:00 pm EST | 10:00 am PST
⏳ Duration: 90 minutes

🔗 Register now! [ https://skillpreceptor.com/training/436/sops-human-error-prevention?LavanyaDM ]

📝 Overview:
Human error is a major cause of quality and production losses, often beginning at the design stage. Understanding behavior and refining procedures can help prevent many errors.

Why Attend?
Procedures cause over 40% of human errors in manufacturing and are a key focus of regulatory citations. We will explore content development and formats that reduce errors while balancing user needs and compliance.

Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of procedures
- Learn why people refuse to use procedures
- Learn the best formats and content elements for SOPs
- Learn document hierarchy and different types of procedures based on their use
- Understand the common Human Errors and deviations related to the use of procedures
- Understand the reading and writing processes and how people may impact the processes.

Area Covered:
- SOP writing outline
- Content development
- The rationale for procedure use
- Regulatory compliance background
- Universal purpose of procedures
- The Human Perspective
- Human Error as a root cause
- The thinking and reading process
- Common mistakes and causes
- How to create and maintain a procedure
- Goals of a procedure
- Good Procedure Writing practices (Terminology, Formats, layouts, mixed cases, steps content, familiar words, references, branching, conditional steps, the use of “Precautions”, “Warnings” and “Cautions”
- Procedure styles
- Use of electronic information networks for procedure access.