Ethics – Where The Rubber Hits The Road
Overview:
Learn how to navigate ethical dilemmas in this very practical ethics course that is based on many real-life examples.
This course is different from other ethics courses in its practical approach of using examples to broaden the coverage of ethics and related learning. This course is taught by an active CFO who has faced lots of real-life ethics issues and uses these to work through many realistic cases. You will work through difficult areas, ethical principles, key ethics rules, and then a large number of practical case situations.
Course Content:
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
- Ethics in society and do people trust accountants?
- Are there gray areas?
- The “I was just following orders” excuse
- Ethically difficult situations and working outside Canada
- Making your ethical standards known internally
- Ethics analysis and resolution principles applied
- Get them to put it in writing
- Whistleblower lines and codes of conduct
- Invoicing games
- Bank reporting ethics
- Ethics and FOFI – a solution
- Illegal practices
- Management over-ride
- Small business tax fraud
- Procurement fraud
- Caught in a family feud
Learning Objectives:
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
- Recognize ethically challenging situations
- Apply key rules when faced with ethical challenges
- Obtain real-life tips to navigate dilemmas
- Walkthrough solutions to diverse ethics cases
Who Will Benefit:
Accounting and finance professional who wants to improve their practical approach to ethics.