Ethics - That Feeling In Your Gut

This course considers the crucial role of your “gut” in ethical decision-making and includes a provocative discussion of ethical issues in accounting, tax and business. The presenter shares personal and other experiences with ethically challenging situations and their resolution.

AGENDA

• Consider the role of your gut, versus analysis in ethical decision-making
• The risks of ignoring your gut
• What is your ethics gut and where does it gut come from?
• Ethics issue or professional disagreement?
• Truth in government funding documents
• Being ready to be fired for taking a stand
• An eclectic of ethical scenarios, primarily from real-life
• Ethics in society…testing and future CPAs
• Diversification of ethics risk, the employed versus the public accountant
• Testifying against a former employer in court
• Ethics in the job interview – is the candidate strong on ethics
• Are fines a cost of doing business?
• Ethics pressure and coercion by incentives
• Nepotism and ethics
• Ethics and travel expenses
• Another way to punish the fraudster
• Cash payments and taxes
• Learning from ethics history
• You will come out on top in the end!

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

All CPAs and indeed non-CPAs with an interest in ethics would benefit from this course. This includes CPAs in industry, public practice, government, and the Not-For-Profit and consulting sectors. The course is of interest not just to get verifiable ethics hours but to really impact one’s approach to ethics.

Instructor(s): Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMA, President and Founder of Practical PD