Conducting Your 2025 Annual ACH Rules Compliance Audit - a Step-by-Step Guide

There are changes each year in the Nacha Operating Rules that affect your annual ACH Rules Compliance Audit, including 2025. These Rules changes will be included as they affect the audit.

This session will cover “step-by-step” the audit process and requirements for each participant conducting an annual ACH audit, to help ensure their compliance with the Nacha Operating Rules.

Why Should You Attend:

The annual ACH Rules Compliance Audit requires a precise examination of all ACH processes that a participant is involved in, then completing the “compliance test” of those processes to ensure compliance with the Nacha Operating Rules.

Knowing what to check for and understanding what report to look at (incoming ACH file or outgoing ACH file) is crucial for ensuring you are ensuring compliance with the Nacha Operating Rules. The trainer will walk you through “step-by-step” with tips on how to successfully “test” and what to look for when checking the ACH processes and rules compliance.

This session will identify who needs to conduct an annual ACH Audit. In addition, outline the process for each participant that is required to conduct the annual Rules compliance Audit, plus offer tips and guidance for creating your own personalized ACH Audit (based on the ACH activities you utilize).

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Identify the participants in the ACH network required to conduct an annual ACH Rules compliance Audit
• Define the General Audit Requirements
• Discussion on tools available in the Nacha Operating Guidelines for guidance when conducting the annual ACH Rules Compliance Audit, including the TPS audit.
• Review the flexibility for each participant when following the Guidelines, which include the ODFI, RDFI, TPSP and TPS within the Rules Book
• Describe “how-to” ensure Rules Compliance after determination of what ACH activities are being audited
• Recommended areas to check (audit) in addition during the ACH Audit

Who Will Benefit:

• ACH Operations staff
• Compliance Officers
• Treasury professionals
• Third-Party Payment Processors
• Third-Party Senders
• ACH Managers
• Electronic Payments Professionals
• ACH auditors (internal and external)

Donna K Olheiser
VP of Education, Dynamic Mastership

Donna K Olheiser has over 24 years of experience in the financial services industry which includes 9 years' experience as the education service director at a Regional Payments Association (RPA), where she managed and facilitated the entire education program for nearly 800 financial institution members. Prior to that, Ms. Olheiser spent 14 years in various departments with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and also holds the Accredited ACH Professional (AAP) designation.

Her extensive knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for transferring payment processing knowledge using the adult learning theory is remarkable and has helped many payment professionals perform daily operational tasks including exception processing while remaining compliant with the NACHA Operating Rules. She uses scenarios and examples to bring the learning home, easy to comprehend and apply to life day-to-day ACH processing. Her ability to engage the learner through the entire training event helps the adult learner apply what they've learned during each training session.

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