Any CPA who faces ethical dilemmas in their day-to-day experiences.
Learning Objectives
After attending this presentation you will be able to...
- Evaluate the relationship between financial success and ethics
- Identify the characteristics that make the CPA credential unique compared to other financial designations
- Compare and contrast the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct to the ethics codes of other financial professionals
- Analyze the steps in the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Conceptual Framework Approach
- Recognize the key issues currently being addressed by the AICPA Professional Ethics Executive Committee
- Recognize the key factors that influence employee behavior according to research
- Identify the key factors of ethical communication that increase trust
- Indicate how the concept of ethical communication can be applied within the context of a difficult conversation
Major Topics
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:
- Does it pay for a company to have strong ethics?
- Can you measure the financial impact of ethics?
- Does ethics make a difference in financial performance?
- Can ethics be used as a competitive advantage?
- What sets the CPA designation apart?
- AICPA Code of Professional Conduct & the Conceptual Framework Approach
- Ethics as a marketing tool
- Personalizing your Code of Ethics
- Four building blocks of ethical culture
- What influences employee behavior?
- Ethical research
- Building trust in organizations
- Maintaining objectivity in difficult situations
