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Most CPAs faces ethical crossroads — moments that test integrity, courage, and professional judgment. This 2.5 hour webinar helps CPAs recognize, analyze, and respond to a wide range of real-world ethics challenges they face, could face, or can learn from.

 

Participants will explore practical dilemmas such as ethical temptation, external pressure, and maintaining integrity in complex environments. Through relatable stories, thought-provoking cases, and the guidance of a veteran ethics instructor, participants will strengthen their ability to choose the ethical path — and understand why it’s always worth it.

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It comprises 2 ethics hours for Canadian and Bermuda CPAs.

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AGENDA

 

• Participants will explore diverse, interactive cases and discussions, including:

• When They Don’t Want You to Report It – Handling pressure to stay silent.

• The Cost of Ignoring Red Flags – And the lessons to be learned from this.

• When You Sign Off and Then Realize You Shouldn’t Have – Managing post-decision regret ethically.

• Is This Really an Ethics Issue? – Learning to spot subtle ethical dilemmas.

• The Different Levels of Ethics – Which category do you fall in?

• The Whistleblower in My Class – Real experiences and lessons learned.

• Travel Expense Claim Honesty – Small decisions, with ethical implications.

• The Whistleblowing The Really Helps – What should it cover?

• When You Quit For Ethics – What can you disclose?

• The Case of the Crooked PE Firm – Analyzing major integrity breaches

• LinkedIn Information Ethics – what should do when your subordinate mis-states information?

• Short and Longer Case Studies – Practical application of ethical decision-making frameworks.

• And More

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This session was created and is presented by a veteran CFO Stephen Priddle who has created courses that over 36,000 accountants have attended and are known for practicality, examples, and humour, who is prolific writer of published cases.  

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98% of this course content applies outside Canada, so it is of interest to accountants from anywhere in the world.

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Who will benefit

 

Anybody with an interest in ethics or needing ethics hours.

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Past feedback on the course:

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• I highly recommend this course to anyone looking for a realistic and thought-provoking approach to ethics in the workplace.

• Your approach made the topic engaging and relatable, encouraging reflection on our own behavior and choices..

• I also liked the duration of the session — the longer format allowed time for reflection and meaningful discussion.

• This ethics course presents real-world cases that many of us have witnessed in our own workplaces, such as questionable expense claims, whistleblowing situations, misleading clients about audit hours, or being falsely accused in ethical matters.

• He turned ethics, often seen as a dry subject, into something practical, engaging, and even fun

• Great examples and jokes!

• I enjoyed your course.  Helped me think a little differently about ethical issues.

• In the last case..lots of questionable behaviour but not all was unethical.  Helped me understand the difference between personal values & ethics.  Making that determination is important to the profession.

• Thank you for adding the Charity example - it's not a well represented industry but carries a ton of ethical challenges.

• I enjoy how much more interactive this course is compared to most CPD courses

• The course on ethics was engaging and thought-provoking

• I found the topics interesting and relevant to real-world situations

• Awesome course - great examples!!!

• Thank you for another great course!!

• Always enjoy your courses very interactive

• Overall really enjoyed the course and your style

• Interesting as always

• Great examples of potential ethical challenges, not always cut and dried situations

• Pace of presentation was great

• It was great to see a charity situation in this one

• I like the title and how you closed the session with a tie into that.  It is recognizing that it is not an easy path but being authentic to your own moral and ethical code is always rewarded, whether financially or spiritually.  Nice way to end the session.

• The real-life case scenarios and examples were engaging and easy to relate to.

• I appreciated your enthusiasm and the informal tone, which made complex ethical topics more approachable.

• An enjoyable and relatable session with lively examples

• I liked the cases are where you really get to think things through

• I love the personal approach, speaking of your experiences

• I liked how you closed the session, with the successful CEO’s

• Great course to get professionals thinking about the gray zones. It’s not always clear what we should do but this helps tremendously. 

• I really appreciated the real-life examples that connected directly to situations we face at work

• You presented ethics not as a textbook theory but as something that shapes our everyday decisions.

• It was refreshing to see that ethical dilemmas aren’t limited to big scandals like Enron or Wells Fargo — they also happen in small, familiar moments, such as the “breakfast buffet” case.

• I really enjoyed the class. Lots of participation.

• The course content is very relevant for the profession.

• The real life examples were an added bonus.

• Real life examples to test and reaffirm your moral principals delivered with enthusiasm.

• Very interesting stories

• Stephen Priddle has a way of making the ethics topic thoughtful and interesting, the examples are outside of what you normally see in a CPA ethics course (which is generally more redundant topics)

• The course was a good length

• I enjoyed the course

• I thought the content was very good and certainly provoked thinking as to what should you do.

• Thought provoking based on real life examples of ethical dilemmas that will cause you to reflect on how you would manage a similar situation.

• You still manage to make it more enjoyable!

• I liked new examples of tricky situations.  I do like starting with simple examples to set the stage and then the build into more complicated less obvious situations. 

• Overall great course!

• These were the best Lawyer jokes to date.

• I enjoyed the discussions around linkedin, leaving an employer and being misquoted

• Great ethics course​

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