Ethical conduct is critical for the tax arena. This course will focus on public accounting-specific ethics issues, with a special focus on recent cases.
Learning Objectives
- Learning Outcomes
- Recognize the benefits of being ethical
- Recognize ways we all behave unethically (and still think we are ethical)
- Identify ethical difficulties including right vs right dilemmas and external pressures
- Identify six easily implementable steps to create and maintain an ethical culture
Major Topics
The course will examine, using real-world examples and disciplinary cases, what went right and wrong with the behavior of others in the accounting profession. We will also compare these cases to the standards and core values set forth in the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct.
