Course description
Ethics - a workshop for Accountants
This Auditing & Ethics course is available as a face to face event or as a virtual, online training!
As Maya Angelou very wisely said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” This is the essence of what practitioners need to keep at the front and centre of their thoughts. Ethics is a dynamic topic that needs us to keep checking in with ourselves, our thoughts, actions, values and intentions to ensure that we continually strive to do better.
In recent times the accounting profession’s reputation has been challenged in the public space, requiring us to reflect on where we are, what we stand for and what we are prepared to tolerate and accept. The only way we can do this is to be aware of our own personal ethics, the ethics of organisations and clients and upholding our professional reputation and moral compass.
Ethical leadership is a critical to element in good practice management, corporate governance and role modelling to others that it is possible to do business in an ethical and sustainable way.
This workshop will start at the beginning by reflecting on our own personal ethics, how that impacts on our business culture and supports our Code of Professional Conduct and profession.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is aimed at all accounting professionals working in practice and commerce.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
At the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Discuss the ethics framework and reflect on their own personal journey
- Demonstrate an awareness of ethical theories and how they apply to the accounting profession
- Employ strategies that encourage and create a healthy ethical business environment
- Identify and use practical models to reflect and document ethical dilemmas
- Comply with the IFAC Code of Professional Conduct as it applies to all accounting practitioners.
CPE credits are available for all courses.
Training Course Content
This course is designed to cover the following key topics:
- What is ethics?
- Common theories of ethics as they affect accountants
- Models to document and reflect on ethical dilemmas
- Ethics, Leadership and Role Modelling
- Ethical fading and moral disengagement
- Conflict of Interest and independence.
- Due-care and competency.
- Understanding our ethical responsibility to report Non-Compliance with Laws and Regulations (NOCLAR)
- Understanding your professional code of conduct.
- Real-life examples and case studies will be discussed throughout the session.
Why choose IASeminars
We've been training for 20 years.
50% of our business comes from returning clients.
We offer instructor-led training in international locations, over Zoom or in house.
Reviews
Expenses
The cost of this training program is £995 + VAT for face to face events and £950 + VAT for virtual events.
Very good course on ethics. It makes you think about principles that may be wider than you originally assumed and gets into some areas that you never really considered in detail...