401k Annual Audits: Anticipating Serious and Costly Errors, Understanding the Latest SASs,...
January 24, 2024 • CPE • CPE On-Demand, Download
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This course will provide retirement plan administrators, auditors, and plan sponsors with best practices to prevent serious and costly errors in preparing for 401(k) audits. The panel will explain the pitfalls that practitioners often encounter in these audits and outline recent changes to the audit...
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Employee Benefit Plan Audit Peer Reviews
Preparing for Risk Assessment, Control Document Inspection, and Other Peer...
December 7, 2022 • CPE, EA • CPE On-Demand, Download
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This course will help auditors identify issues frequently arising in peer review audits of employee benefit plans and offer best practices to address potential problems and work with reviewers.
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Mastering Form 5500 Schedule H: Avoiding Audit Triggers
Financial Information Reporting Requirements, Identifying Valuation Challen...
May 17, 2022 • CPE, EA • Download
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This course will provide employee benefits professionals and tax advisers with a practical and comprehensive guide to completing Form 5500, specifically focusing on Schedule H, Financial Information. Our panel will offer specific guidance on completing the Schedule H including proper classification...
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DOL Health and Welfare Plan Audit Response and Protection: Reducing Risk Exposure to Avoid...
February 15, 2022 • CPE, EA • CPE On-Demand, Download
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This course will provide employee benefits accounting and tax professionals with a thorough and practical guide to preparing responses for a Department of Labor (DOL) investigative audit of a company's health and welfare plan. The panel will discuss required documentation and procedures for submitta...
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Employee Benefit Plan Voluntary Correction Programs: Fixing Costly Errors and Preserving T...
Leveraging Available IRS and DOL Programs to Proactively Address Plan Mista...
March 23, 2021 • CPE • Download
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This course will provide employee benefit plan auditors with best practices and the proper procedures to remedy serious and costly (but all too common) benefit plan errors through available IRS and DOL retirement plan correction programs. The panel will explain the processes and potential pitfalls t...
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ERISA 103(a)(3)(C) Audit Standard: Limited Scope Audit and Reducing Disclaimers
SAS 136: Audit Performance and Disclosure Duties, Evaluating Qualified Inve...
October 28, 2020 • CPE • Download
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This course will provide audit professionals and employee benefit plan (EBP) sponsors with a critical analysis of AICPA Statements on Audit Standard (SAS) 136, with a particular focus on ERISA Section 103(a)(3)(C) audit rules and the alteration of the prior limited scope audit provisions. The panel...
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Employee Stock Options: Tackling Complex Tax, Accounting, and Valuation Challenges
Navigating IRC Section 409A, FASB Requirements, and the AICPA's Practice Gu...
March 25, 2020 • CPE • Download
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This course will give tax advisers, corporate tax professionals, auditors, and valuation professionals a detailed review of the IRS rules and financial accounting standards that impact the reporting, issuance, and receipt of employee stock options. The panel will discuss qualified vs. nonqualified o...
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Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Employee Benefit Plans: Fiduciaries' Duty to Protect Pla...
ERISA vs. State Law Requirements, Preemption, Auditor's Role in Addressing...
August 15, 2019 • CPE • Download
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This course will guide employee benefits administrators and audit advisers on conducting risk assessments of cybersecurity measures for employee benefit plans. The panel will discuss the specific fiduciary duties imposed on sponsors and administrators to protect individual identity and health inform...
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Employee Benefit Plan Audits: Asking the Right Questions and Avoiding Critical Errors
Understanding Internal Controls, Audit Considerations for the Limited Scope...
July 11, 2019 • CPE • Download
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This course will provide employee benefits auditors with best practices to prevent most of the severe and costly (but all too common) errors in benefit plan audits. The panel will explain the pitfalls that practitioners often encounter in these audits and outline how to address these issues based on...
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Retirement Plan Audit Risks: Identifying Plan Errors and Remedying Noncompliance
Preparing 401(k), 403(b) and Retirement Plans for Audit
May 7, 2019 • CPE • Download
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This course will apprise auditors and plan sponsors of the potential audit risks relating to their 401(k) and retirement plans and address how to bring these plans into compliance. The panel will identify common plan deficiencies, corrective actions and insights into avoiding plan audits.
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403(b) Plan Annual Audits: Identifying Costly Reporting Errors, Evaluating Alternative Sol...
Determining Audit and Form 5500 Filing Requirements for Governmental and No...
February 20, 2018 • CPE • Download
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This course will provide employee benefits administrators, auditors and plan sponsors with best practices to prevent serious and costly errors in preparing for 403b plan audits. The panel will differentiate between 401k and 403b audits, explain the pitfalls that practitioners often encounter in thes...
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International Implications of Social Security for Workers in the U.S.
Determining Eligibility, Withholding and Filing Requirements, Totalization...
December 5, 2017 • CPE, EA • Download
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This course will provide employee benefit advisers with a thorough and practical guide to the complex area of social security coverage and withholding for inbound employees of U.S. companies. The panel will outline the statutory rules for how these individuals qualify for coverage, discuss the impac...
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New Determination Letter Process for Tax-Qualified Employee Benefit Plans: Preparing for M...
Amending Plans in the Absence of Determination Letters, Elimination of the...
December 7, 2016 • CPE, EA • Download
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This course will provide employee benefits professionals and auditors with a critical first look at the new IRS guidelines that virtually eliminate the Determination Letter Program for retirement plans. The panel will also detail the specific changes contained in Rev. Proc. 2016-51, and offer useful...
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401k Audit Issues With Plan Transfers: Identifying Change of Provider Issues in Annual Pla...
Auditor's Role in Ensuring Compliance With DOL Rules and Fiduciary Standard...
June 15, 2016 • CPE • Download
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This course will provide benefit plan professionals, including auditors and plan administrators, with a deep and comprehensive guide to the specific issues involving 401(k) plan transfers from one provider to another. The panel will identify the specific risks and reporting requirements involved in...
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