Solution Training. Risk & Compliance: Financial Risk Management and Financial Performance Management Solutions

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1 Solution Training Risk & Compliance: Financial Risk Management and Financial Performance Management Solutions June - December 2012

2 Three Ways to Take Advantage of Training from Fiserv: Classroom Training Courses (C) These courses offer traditional classroom-style instruction led by experienced product specialists from Fiserv. This group-live instruction is hands on to reinforce concepts and enhance software proficiency. Classroom training courses, unless otherwise noted, target new users and have no prerequisites. Courses are hosted at our training centers in Phoenix, AZ, and Norcross, GA. These courses are denoted by (C). Instructor-Led Group Training Webinars (W) Attend our training without ever leaving your office! Led by our experienced product specialists, these training courses provide in-depth product instruction and Q&A opportunities via interactive Web presentations. These courses are denoted by (W). Online Training Courses (O) Set your own learning pace and absorb key concepts through self-study and practice. These courses offer you the most flexibility for scheduling and attending instructional training on Risk and Compliance products. These courses are denoted by (O). Fiserv instructors are specialists who use the products on a daily basis. Our hands-on classroom courses (group live seminars) allow learners to maximize their learning experience in order to become proficient in using Fiserv software. Training seminars, unless otherwise noted, target new users and have no prerequisites. To access our Learning Center and register for training, go to

3 Solution Training July - December 2012 Financial Risk Management Solutions Asset Liability Manager and Data Management System Basic Course (C) Basic training for the Asset Liability Manager from Fiserv, the asset/liability (A/L) software model that measures interest rate risk. Attendees are introduced to operating A/L Manager and data-mapping tool (DMS), our data warehouse tool. Topics also include setting up and operating the software, instrument level processing (ILP) functionality for high-resolution modeling. This course targets A/L end users with working knowledge of AL/M theory, Windows skills, and moderate Excel skills. Prerequisites: Basic understanding of A/LM theory Moderate Excel skills Basic Microsoft Windows skills CPE Credits: 24 Length: 3 days Date/Location: Sept Phoenix, AZ Oct Phoenix, AZ Dec 4-6 Phoenix, AZ Price: $1,500 Asset Liability Manager and Data Management System for Advanced Users (C) This advanced training course presents in-depth concepts, tools and instrument level processing (ILP) features. Topics include valuation, and purchase/sale(s), calls, puts, prepayment tables, lag matrix, formulas, and the incorporation of external spreadsheets as an input source. The course also includes setting up and importing data for the ILP accounts in DMS. Attendees participate in a small group analysis of several case studies using Fiserv A/L model. Prerequisites: Moderate to extensive experience using Asset Liability Manager Extensive knowledge of asset/liability management theory CPE Credits: 24 Length: 3 days Date/Location: Jul Phoenix, AZ Nov 6-8 Phoenix, AZ Price: $1,500 Financial Performance Management Solutions Funds Transfer Pricing and Data Management System Basic Course (C) This course introduces participants to fund transfer pricing (FTP) theory and how computerized models assist in separating and measuring the components of net interest margin. Attendees learn how to set up and operate the Funds Transfer Pricing from Fiserv, and its data aggregation tool, DMS. This class is presented at a controlled pace for new practitioners. Focus Areas: Understanding FTP concepts/methodology Using DMS to gather data for the FTP system Setting up and maintaining FTP Entering processing support data into FTP Processing/pricing DMS tables in FTP Reporting and analyzing results Exporting FTP results for profitability systems and ad hoc analysis 3

4 Applying non-required FTP options, including transfer rate overrides, lag days, GL account links, transfer rate adjustments, prepay tables, remaining term transfer pricing Using the data backup/restore utility CPE Credits: 24 Length: 3 days Date/Location: Oct Phoenix, AZ Price: $1,500 Management Planning and Control (C) This 3-1/2 day hands-on training course is designed for new Management Pricing and Control administrators at institutions that need instruction prior to budget season. Topics include creating views for web workstation, building formulas, and setting up margin planning, as well as financial reporting, detail budgeting, and balancing. The budget procedure and approval process will also be discussed. In this course, you will learn how to use Architect, View Manager, and Formula builder. Attendees will be able to share their experience in budgeting and learn best practices. Prerequisite: Understanding of Management Planning and Control s role in your institution s budget process. CPE Credits: 28 Length: 3.5 days Date/Location: Aug Norcross, GA Price: $1,750 CPE Credits: 20 Length: 2.5 days Date/Location: Jul Norcross, GA Price: $1,250 Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager Implementation Workshops This 3-1/2 day workshop is reserved for those institutions preparing to implement Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager. You will learn the application and prepare your data for deployment. Contact Diana Jacobsen via at Diana.jacobsen@fiserv.com or call to obtain the schedule and review the prerequisites. Using Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager for Budgeting and Planning Part 1 Only (C) This 2-day course is designed for new Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager users. The instructor will review features and functions that will help you use the application to achieve your budgeting, planning, and reporting objectives. Prerequisite: Prior to attending the course, complete the following On-Demand Webcast: Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager Introduction. You will find this pre-recorded presentation on our Secure Web in the On-Demand Webcast section. Focus Areas: Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager Overview Base rates, yield curves, and prepayment speeds Management Planning and Control for Advanced Users (C) This 2-1/2 day course is for MPC Administrators who want to take their MPC product utilization to the next level. Through hands-on exercises and discussions with peers, attendees will explore topics such as multiyear forecasting, profitability reporting, and creating dashboards and consolidation scripts. There will be time allotted for clients to raise topics of their own. Prerequisite: Proficiency in MPC Architect and View Manager; understanding of your institution s reporting needs. Maintaining products Balance sheet, income statement, and statistical data Monthly processing Working with scenarios and using assumption types Working with both standard and custom reports CPE Credits: 16 Length: 2 days Date/Location: July Norcross, GA Sept Norcross, GA Price: $1,000 4

5 Using Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager as an Asset Liability Management (A/LM) Tool Part 2 Only (C) This 1-day course targets intermediate Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager users. The instructor will review product setup and demonstrate asset liability management tools and analysis. For your convenience, the course is scheduled immediately following Part 1. Prerequisite: Intermediate experience using Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager for budgeting and planning, or completion of Vantage Part 1, or completion of Vantage Implementation Workshop. Focus Areas: Optimizing product setup for A/LM Economic value and duration Interest rate risk Gap and liquidity reporting CPE Credits: 8 Length: 1 day Date/Location: Jul 19 Norcross, GA Sept 20 Norcross, GA Price: $500 Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager Parts 1 and 2 (C) Attend both classes at a discounted rate. The 3-day course helps attendees use this flexible tool toward achieving budgeting objectives, generating reports, and conducting asset liability management analysis with accurate data. CPE Credits: 24 Length: 3 days Date/Location: Jul Norcross, GA Sept Norcross, GA Price: $1,350 (Discounted) Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager: Budgeting and Forecasting Online Course (O) Vantage Budget & Forecasting Online is a self-paced elearning course that provides you with a detailed introduction to budgeting and forecasting using Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager. In this course, attendees learn how to plan and set up scenarios, set standard assumptions, set and calculate individual account assumptions, use Vantage formulas, calculate scenario results, copy scenario results to budget, and copy scenario-to- rate shock. Learners have 6-month access once the learner begins the course. Length: 5-6 hours Price: $500 Contact: rps.training@fiserv.com Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager: Asset Liability Management Online Course (O) Vantage Asset Liability Management (A/LM) Online is a self-paced elearning course that allows you to review product setup and demonstrate A/LM tools and analysis. Focus areas include optimizing product setup for A/LM, economic value and duration, interest rate risk, gap and liquidity reporting. In this course, attendees learn the Vantage components and foundation learn how to manage interest rate risk, learn the net economic value as an A/LM tool, duration and gap tools for A/LM, examiner report package, relationship between A/LM and budgeting. This course is for intermediate Vantage users. Learners have 6-month access once the learner begins the course. Length: 4-5 Hours Price: $ Contact: rps.training@fiserv.com To access our Learning Center and register for training, go to 5

6 Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager: Distributed Budgeting, Instructor-Led Group Webinar (W) Include up to three participants with one registration! If you are responsible for budget planning or need to review how to use distributed budgeting, this webinar may be for you. Attend this instructor-led group webinar and review the distributed budgeting functionality within Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager. This new functionality helps integrate all departments into the budget process, saving time and promoting efficiency. This is an opportunity to interact with a live instructor and become proficient with the program features. Learn how to work with budget assumptions, filter budget items, and recalculate assumption results. The instructor will also demonstrate steps for working with assumptions for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet entries. Attendees will also learn to work with balance and rates. Prerequisite: Clients must have purchased the distributed budgeting functionality. This webinar is not intended for general Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager users. Length: 1.5 hours Date: Jul 25 Sept 25 Nov 20 Price: $225 Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager: Formula Reports, Instructor-Led Group Webinar (W) Include up to three participants with one registration! Report formulas are an important component within Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager. While their main use is in creating key ratios, they can also be useful in creating alternative reporting hierarchies. This webinar highlight report formulas, and demonstrate different ways that they can be used. Sample formulas, libraries and reports, in addition to tips and tricks for easier formula writing will be presented. The recent enhancement of a center wildcard that allows for easier reporting at the center level will also be covered. Length: 2 hours Date: Jul 10 Sept 13 Nov 8 Price: $300 Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager: Monthly Processing, Instructor-Led Group Webinar (W) Include up to three participants with one registration! This webinar targets Vantage users who are responsible for routine maintenance and imports of financial and statistical data. Learn the recommended steps for updating data and best practices pertaining to each component of the import process. Focus Areas: Product, base rate and account setup which are crucial to providing a strong foundation for imported financial data The import process, tips for troubleshooting common imports errors, and the best approach to using classifications and cross references How products, base rates and accounts are linked to populate instrument tables and create reconciling instruments How Vantage calculates current period net income, average balances and yields, and more Reports to help validate results CPE Credits: 1.5 hour Date: Aug 21 Oct 18 Dec 13 Price: $225 NEW Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager: Custom Reports, Instructor-Led Group Webinar (W) Include up to three participants with one registration! Financial reporting is an important component of the Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager. With Custom Reports, you can create financial reports including Statement of Condition, Income Statement and 6

7 Statement of Cash Flow, as well as risk management reports including Net Interest Income, Gap and Economic Value. Learn how to tailor these reports to your institutions unique structure using custom report hierarchies. This webinar will demonstrate how to use your account and classification hierarchies to create reports of varying degrees of detail or summary. With the Report Wizard or directly from report properties, you can manage time periods, datasets and measures to deliver all of your information needs. Finally, this webinar will cover managing routine processes like monthly ALCO and Board reporting efficiently with Report Packages. CPE Credits: 1.5 hour Date: Jul 12 Sept 20 Nov 14 Price: $225 NEW Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager: Introduction to Product Modeling, Instructor-Led Group Webinar (W) Include up to three participants with one registration! Product modeling is a key component of the Vantage Risk and Budgeting Manager. Product modeling drives cash flows and plays a major role in the accuracy and reliability of your results. This course will define how products are used and the linkage between accounts, products and base rates. Emphasis will be given to basic product set up and populating instrument level data. This course is aimed at newer users and those wishing to brush up on the budgeting and ALM functionality within Vantage. CPE Credits: 2 hours Date: Aug 9 Oct 23 Dec 18 Price: $300 Prologue Accounts Payable (C) This interactive course introduces the Prologue Accounts Payable system to accounts payable end users. Attendees receive hands-on guidance on processing vouchers, vendor payments, and general ledger entries. Attendees will be guided through the process of gathering journal entry information from Prologue. This course covers the initial setup of the Prologue Accounts Payable solution, vendor and voucher maintenance, vendor payment, and detailed accounts payable reporting. This course also covers the voiding process as well as reports related to daily transactions. CPE Credits: 16 Length: 2 days Date/Location: Jul Norcross, GA Jul 31-Aug 1 Norcross, GA Aug Norcross, GA Aug Phoenix, AZ Sept Norcross, GA Sept Phoenix, AZ Oct 9-10 Norcross, GA Oct Norcross, GA Nov 6-7 Norcross, GA Nov Norcross, GA Dec Norcross, GA Price: $1,000 Prologue Accounts Payable Online Course (O) This self-paced course introduces Prologue Accounts Payable system to accounts payable end users. In this course, you will learn how to process vouchers and payments for vendors, and create general ledger entries that can be posted to a general ledger. In addition, this course covers vendors and voucher maintenance, vendor payment, and detailed accounts payable reporting. Learners have 6-month access once the learner begins the course Length: 4-6 hours Price: $500 Contact: rps.training@fiserv.com To access our Learning Center and register for training, go to 7

8 Prologue Fixed Assets (C) This interactive course introduces the Prologue Fixed Assets system to fixed assets end users. Participants receive hands-on guidance and practice how to create and maintain fixed assets, process depreciation and run detail reports for internal and tax books. They also create entries that can be posted to their general ledger. This course covers the initial setup of the Prologue Fixed Assets software, fixed assets input, asset classifications, depreciation processing, and fixed assets reporting. CPE Credits: 12 Length: 1.5 days Date/Location: Jul Norcross, GA Aug 2-3 Norcross, GA Aug Norcross, GA Aug Phoenix, GA Sept Norcross, GA Sept Phoenix, AZ Oct Norcross, GA Oct Norcross, GA Nov 8-9 Norcross, GA Nov Norcross, GA Dec Norcross, GA Price: $750 Prologue Fixed Assets Online Course (O) This self-paced course introduces Prologue Fixed Assets to fixed assets end users. You will learn how to create an asset, classify assets, run depreciation, transfer and dispose of assets, create general ledger entries, and create reports. In addition, this course reviews the initial setup of the Prologue Fixed Assets module. Learners have 6-month access once the learner begins the course. Length: 4-6 hours Price: $500 Contact: Prologue General Ledger (C) This 2-day course provides an in-depth overview of the key functions and features of the Prologue General Ledger system. The system maintains your general ledger accounts, transactions, balances and subledger balancing. It provides accurate financial reporting to help support business needs. It maintains an unlimited number of years of transaction and budget history to help you analyze trends, and make better business decisions. This course targets those who operate the Prologue General Ledger system on a daily and monthly basis. Focus Areas: System administration including managing users and security access, and defining standard configurations for an existing or new system setup Maintaining the general ledger chart of accounts Importing and exporting transaction and budget information including subledger balancing Maintaining and processing accrual, prepaid, and elimination transactions Creating and posting journal entries Maintaining the posting processes that include batch and real-time posting Daily/monthly maintenance and processing using unattended processing Comprehensive reporting using system generated reports Introduction to creating and generating financial reports using Financial Report Designer functionality CPE Credits: 16 Length: 2 days Date/Location: Jul Norcross, GA Jul Norcross, GA Aug 7-8 Norcross, GA Aug Norcross, GA Sept 5-6 Norcross, GA Sept Norcross, GA Oct 2-3 Norcross, GA Oct Norcross, GA Oct Norcross, GA Nov Norcross, GA Dec 4-5 Norcross, GA Dec Phoenix, AZ Price: $1,000 8

9 Prologue General Ledger Financial Reports (C) This 1-day course provides an in-depth hands-on review of the financial report designer component within the Prologue General Ledger. This tool enable users to reconcile data, analyze trends, and effectively make better decisions. This course targets those who create and maintain financial reports within the Prologue General Ledger module. Bring a sample financial report to this session and learn how to re-create it in class. The instructor reviews and assists attendees in creating, formatting, and maintaining row, column, and entity templates. Prerequisites: Learners should understand the following elements within Prologue General Ledger: Application Navigation Chart of account segment structure and maintenance Account balances (month-end, net activity, averages, budget amounts) Fiscal Year and Periods CPE Credits: 8 Length: 1 day Date/Location: July 12 Norcross, GA July 26 Norcross, GA Aug 9 Norcross, GA Aug 23 Norcross, GA Sept 7 Norcross, GA Sept 20 Norcross, GA Oct 4 Norcross, GA Oct 18 Norcross, GA Nov 1 Norcross, GA Nov15 Norcross, GA Dec 6 Norcross, GA Dec 20 Phoenix, GA Price: $500 Prologue General Ledger Financial Reports, Instructor-Led Group Webinar (W) Include up to three participants with one registration! Prologue General Ledger financial reports allow you to create an unlimited number of financial reports, which fosters better decision-making. This webinar provides a review of the financial report designer tool. Attendees will learn the fundamentals of report writing. They will also learn how to create, format and maintain Prologue General Ledger financial reports using row, column and entity templates. This webinar targets users who create and maintain financial reports within the Prologue General Ledger. Prerequisites: You must have the application installed and some experience using the application. Length: 3 hours Date: Jul 17 Aug 15 Sept 18 Oct 16 Nov 13 Dec 12 Price: $450 To access our Learning Center and register for training, go to 9

10 Cancellation Policy Cancellations made fewer than 14 days prior to the first day of the courses and 5 days prior to the first day of the webinars are subject to a 50 percent cancellation fee. Confirmed participants who do not attend their scheduled sessions are liable for a 50 percent cancellation fee. You may make substitutions at any time. Fiserv reserves the right to cancel a scheduled course with a 14-day notice and to cancel a scheduled webinar with a 5-day notice to registrants. If a course or webinar is canceled for any reason, Fiserv liability is limited to the fee only. Connect With Us For complaints and concerns regarding a program, contact our Training Administrator at , press 9, or rps.training@fiserv.com. To access our Learning Center and register for training, go to Extension of CPE Credits Fiserv is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: 10

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