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Accounting Ethics

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Learn about the key ethical issues facing accountants and financial controllers, as well as frameworks to help you stay above reproach in financial matters.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The purpose of accounting ethics
1. Values, Ethics, and Governance
  • Differing between ethics, values, and beliefs
  • Defining ethics within accounting
  • Objectivity, transparency, and accountability
2. Ethical Responsibility for Business
  • Differing between legal and ethical choices
  • Ethics for an accountant (code of conduct)
  • Ethics through legal structure
  • Ethics within corporate culture
3. Accounting Ethical Responsibilities
  • Professional competency
  • Professional accountability
  • Ethical consideration and code of conduct
  • Internal controls and audit
4. Corporate Governance
  • Framing corporate governance
  • Boards of directors and board committees
  • Expanding role of governance
  • Nonprofit and public sector governance
Conclusion
  • Ethics in practice: Advice for next steps

Taught by

Ajay Pangarkar

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