Course content

    1. Presentation

    2. Recording

About this course

  • $78.00
  • 2 CPD hours
  • January 25, 2023

Course description

AGENDA

  • Consider the role of your gut, versus analysis in ethical decision-making
  • The risks of ignoring your gut
  • What is your ethics gut and where does it gut come from?
  • Ethics issue or professional disagreement?
  • Truth in government funding documents
  • Being ready to be fired for taking a stand
  • An eclectic of ethical scenarios, primarily from real-life
  • Ethics in society…testing and future CPAs
  • Diversification of ethics risk, the employed versus the public accountant
  • Testifying against a former employer in court
  • Ethics in the job interview – is the candidate strong on ethics
  • Are fines a cost of doing business?
  • Ethics pressure and coercion by incentives
  • Nepotism and ethics
  • Ethics and travel expenses
  • Another way to punish the fraudster
  • Cash payments and taxes
  • Learning from ethics history
  • You will come out on top in the end!

    WHO WILL BENEFIT?

    All CPAs and indeed non-CPAs with an interest in ethics would benefit from this course. This includes CPAs in industry, public practice, government, and the Not-For-Profit and consulting sectors. The course is of interest not just to get verifiable ethics hours but to really impact one’s approach to ethics.

    • Instructor(s)

    Stephen Priddle

    Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMA is the President and Founder of Practical PD and also the Vice-President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of the SureWx Inc. group of companies. SureWx is a global aviation business, an industry leader in the area of assisting airlines optimizing winter operations.

    ​An engaging and experienced teacher, Stephen Priddle weaves practical tips together with stories from his business experience and input from participants. Seasoning the mix with a dose of accounting humour, he serves up useful and dynamic courses. Someone said: “humans are hard-wired to learn from stories” – Stephen is in part a business/accounting story teller, who draws out the lessons from the stories. This is a refreshing change from the usual dull technical courses for accountants and business people. Through his courses, he has interacted with over 23,000 financial leaders and thus stays on the leading edge in terms of best practices and hot topics.

    Stephen’s teaching experience includes presenting courses for over 70 accounting bodies and organizations in Canada and abroad. He is a Session Leader in the new CPA Professional Education Program, and has taught at the University of Toronto and Carleton University. He has moderated in the legacy Canadian CMA Strategic Leadership Program, and taught in the CA program and the CGA program. Stephen is a prolific author. His published business, accounting and finance cases are used by many organizations.

    Stephen has over 35 years of varied business experience. After working with KPMG for five years, he moved into industry, where he has worked for public and private companies. He has gained a wide range of experience in financial reporting, treasury management, merger & acquisition and other business matters.

    Stephen obtained his CPA, CA and CMA designations following graduation from Carleton University with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree, accounting major.