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Process Validation Requirements & Compliance Strategies

ComplianceKEY - Governance Risk and Compliance Training   Overview This Process Validation Requirements webinar will review process validation basics, with emphasis on looking beyond compliance towards achieving a robust process. Review of process validation basics, with emphasis on looking beyond compliance towards achieving a robust process. Why should you attend this webinar? When used as intended, process validation can provide increased process reliability, improved yields, and reduced operating expenses. Areas Covered in the Session: Global Harmonization Task Force requirements (includes FDA and ISO) Installation Qualification (IQ) Operational Qualification (OQ) Performance Qualification (PQ) Design Qualification Facilities and utilities Strategies for achieving a robust and reliable process. Typical process validation protocols. Who can Benefit: Managers, Supervisors, Directors, and Vice-Presidents in the areas of: Research & Development

Depreciation for Accounting and Tax Purposes

Compliance Key INC  - Accounting and Finance Training Patrick A Haggerty Overview Nearly all businesses invest in assets that are used in operating the business. The cost of long lived assets is spread over the useful life of the asset and expensed against revenue for both accounting and tax purposes through a process called depreciation. However, the methods allowed under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the methods allowed for tax purposes are quite different. This webinar will cover the various methods of depreciation, which are allowed for tax purposes and which are allowed under GAAP, and why businesses must keep more than one set of books when it comes to accounting for fixed assets. Why should you attend this webinar? It is important from a compliance standpoint to understand that the purpose of depreciation from a financial accounting and reporting standpoint differs from the purpose from a tax standpoint.

Process Capability Analysis

Compliance Key INC  -  Medical Device Training William A. Levinson William A. Levinson, P.E., is Keynote Speaker at Compliance key Inc. He is the principal of Levinson Productivity Systems, P.C. He is an ASQ Fellow, Certified Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor, Quality Manager, Reliability Engineer, and Six Sigma Black Belt. He is also the author of several books on quality, productivity, and management, of which the most recent is The Expanded and Annotated My Life and Work: Henry Ford's Universal Code for World-Class Success. Overview The process capability index, and related process performance index, reflect the ability of a manufacturing process to meet specifications. A Six Sigma process has six process standard deviations between the specification limits and the nominal. The traditional process capability indices, however, rely on the assumption that the process follows a normal (bell curve) di

Immigration Issues: Implications for HR and Insurance Professionals

ComplianceKEY - HR Webinars Ronald Adler Ronald Adler is Keynote Speaker at Compliance key Inc. He is the president-CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a veteran-owned, human resource management consulting firm that helps organizations enhance the value of their human capital and reduce their exposure to employment practices liability through human capital risk management.  Laurdan Associates specializes in HR audits, employment practices liability risk management, benchmarking and HR metrics, strategic HR, employee surveys, and unemployment insurance management issues.  Mr. Adler has more than 40 years of HR consulting experience worki........ Overview As the country deliberates the dimensions of managing the nation's immigration laws, organizations still must manage key strategic, operational, and compliance immigration priorities. The hallmark of successful organizations is their ability to respond

Understanding the HIPAA Compliance Requirements

Jay Hodes Jay Hodes is Keynote Speaker at Compliance Key - a unit of Ijona Services. He is a leading expert in HIPAA compliance and President of Colington Consulting. His company provides HIPAA consulting services for healthcare providers and business associates. Mr. Hodes has over 30 years of combined experience in risk assessments, site security evaluation, regulatory compliance, policy and procedures assessments, and Federal law enforcement management. He is the former Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Hodes has been the keynote sp........ Overview Being in compliance with HIPAA involves not only ensuring you provide the appropriate patient rights and controls on your uses and disclosures of protected health information, but you also have the proper policies and procedures in place. If audited or the subject of a compliance review you will be required to sh

SOX: Demystifying the Documentation Process

Compliance Key INC  - SOX Certification Training Overview Many people feel overwhelmed when faced with the daunting task of documenting their company's Sarbanes-Oxley controls. This presentation will help you to confidently deliver SOX documentation which auditors and executives are pleased to sign. The SOX documentation process does not have to be complicated. This presentation will show you how simple it can be. Why should you attend this webinar? Documentation is simply writing down what it is that your company does to prove that effective controls have virtually eliminated any possibility of fraud or mistakes. This session will provide you with the tools to prepare SOX documentation that is easily understood and implemented.  Areas Covered in the Session: Getting started: Establishing the scope of the project Setting priorities: Identifying key business processes  Integrating processes from outside your department Interviewing people: Asking the ri

Process Capability for Normal and Non-Normal Data

Compliance Key INC  - Life Science Webinars  Overview This webinar discusses methods for estimating process capability for both normal and non-normal data. Pre-requisites for estimating process capability (e.g. establishing process stability) are discussed first. Distributions are briefly described and methods for estimating ppm levels are presented. The use and limitations of common process capability indices (e.g. Cpk and Ppk) are discussed. It is vital that appropriate methods are used for estimating capability when the data is not well described by a normal distribution. Failure to do so often results in overly optimistic process capability estimates. Methods for testing for normality are discussed. Both transformations and distribution fitting are presented as methods to assess capability for non-normal data. The webinar includes several examples to illustrate the methods.  Why should you attend this webinar? The webinar will provide methods for