This course provides an overview of the ethical imperatives surrounding accuracy and transparency in financial reporting, emphasizing the critical role these principles play in maintaining stakeholder trust and corporate integrity.  This course also addresses the distinction between creative accounting practices and unethical financial reporting.  By better understanding these concepts, CPAs will be better equipped with practical strategies to foster an ethical culture within their organizations and make informed, ethical decisions in complex financial scenarios.

This is an ethics course covering standards of professional conduct and business practices adhered to by accountants such as CPAs in order to enhance their profession and maximize idealism, justice, and fairness when dealing with the public, clients, and other members of their profession. It also presents an approach - the conceptual framework approach - to coping with ethical dilemmas. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its impact on business ethics, internal control requirements, and the CPA’s responsibilities are summarized. Moreover, a brief discussion of the AICPA’s Standards for Tax Service and the IMA’s Statement of Ethical Professional Practice are included. Finally, it identifies different disciplinary systems within the profession and provides guidance on how to respond to an ethics inquiry from the AICPA. It includes examples to illustrate the application of various ethical standards.

Ethics is ultimately about our relationship to self, others, and the world in which we live.  Therefore, to enhance our relationships with those around us, we must first start with the regard we hold for ourselves.

From an ethical vantage, it can be said that we have a moral obligation to work toward self-love, honor, and respect. Matters of self-esteem are important in every aspect of life including goal setting, relationships, establishing boundaries, handling conflict, levels of productivity, and expressing our needs in respectful and dignified ways.

This course will explore traps of low self-esteem and ways to minimize them.  We will also explore components of high self-esteem and actions to foster higher regard for self. 

This course provides an overview of the ethical imperatives surrounding accuracy and transparency in financial reporting, emphasizing the critical role these principles play in maintaining stakeholder trust and corporate integrity.  This course also addresses the distinction between creative accounting practices and unethical financial reporting.  By better understanding these concepts, CPAs will be better equipped with practical strategies to foster an ethical culture within their organizations and make informed, ethical decisions in complex financial scenarios.

This is an ethics course covering standards of professional conduct and business practices adhered to by accountants such as CPAs in order to enhance their profession and maximize idealism, justice, and fairness when dealing with the public, clients, and other members of their profession. It also presents an approach - the conceptual framework approach - to coping with ethical dilemmas. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its impact on business ethics, internal control requirements, and the CPA’s responsibilities are summarized. Moreover, a brief discussion of the AICPA’s Standards for Tax Service and the IMA’s Statement of Ethical Professional Practice are included. Finally, it identifies different disciplinary systems within the profession and provides guidance on how to respond to an ethics inquiry from the AICPA. It includes examples to illustrate the application of various ethical standards.

Ethics is ultimately about our relationship to self, others, and the world in which we live.  Therefore, to enhance our relationships with those around us, we must first start with the regard we hold for ourselves.

From an ethical vantage, it can be said that we have a moral obligation to work toward self-love, honor, and respect. Matters of self-esteem are important in every aspect of life including goal setting, relationships, establishing boundaries, handling conflict, levels of productivity, and expressing our needs in respectful and dignified ways.

This course will explore traps of low self-esteem and ways to minimize them.  We will also explore components of high self-esteem and actions to foster higher regard for self.