Think on Your Feet Like a Rock Star and Still Have Time for Lunch

Overview

Mastering retirement plan audits is essential for plan sponsors to ensure compliance with Department of Labor (DOL) regulations, protect participant assets, and uphold fiduciary responsibilities. Amanda Goar, CPA, Principal at Baker Tilly, highlights key changes to audit triggers, such as focusing on participants with account balances and applying the 80-120 rule, while emphasizing the importance of proactive preparation. She stresses maintaining accurate plan documentation, reconciling census data, ensuring timely contributions, and addressing common challenges like vesting provisions, participant elections, rollovers, loans, and forfeitures.

Highlights

• Business meetings
• Pause & Apply CPR framework
• Difficult questions and comments

Objectives

• Learn to adapt to curveballs during meetings and key interactions
• Determine how to use the Pause & Apply CPR framework to any quick-thinking situation
• Identify key responses for difficult questions and comments

Notice

This is a self-study/on demand course offered by a 3rd party vendor and will NOT be accessible in the My Upcoming CPE section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by CalCPA. The course expires one year from the purchase date. Format = Online Self-Study.