PRACTICAL PD
Courses for Accountants

This course is a wide-ranging discussion of practical ethical issues that CPAs face. It was created and is presented by a veteran ethics instructor with significant real-life ethics experience.  The course works through a wide variety of situations and scenarios, to strengthen your ethical resolve and approaches for dealing with dilemmas.  Past attendees have found it different than other ethics courses, as it is more practical, engaging and humourous and it has some surprises

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It comprises 2 ethics hours for Canadian and Bermuda CPAs.

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AGENDA

 

• Lessons from assurance compromises

• The President who defies the tax rules

• Should there be second chances on ethics?

• Implications of the sudden resignation

• Confidentiality challenges

• Conscience versus confidentiality

• Ethics and more junior positions

• Should you secretly tape the ethics meeting?

• A marriage and ethics illustration

• In-depth case with many issues

• Do you love your job (too much)?

• Provocative lines for ethics disputes

• Maintaining your good name

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This session was created and is presented by a veteran CFO Stephen Priddle who has created courses that over 28,000 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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• This was FUN and very informative.. Thank you Stephen!

• The course brings ethics to life with all the real life examples that are discussed, from small to large, at work and outside of work, from many different perspectives.

• The course overall is good as is and is a great ethical course to take for CPAs.

• Your jokes are the best!  You can quote me on that!

• I enjoyed the course and it gave me food for thought because it did more than scratch the surface on ethics

• The examples are eye-opening

• Great course. I would suggest other controllers to take course from you, 

• Ethics is a complex subject matter, but this course provides more clarity by using examples and suggestions, all in a framework that gives us the tools we can apply to ethical matters in all aspects of life

• I find you really easy to understand, not stuffy, not buzz wordy, but just right.

• Engaging real-life cases and a personable presenter make this a good choice to get your Ethics requirement PD points.

• I like the inclusion of junior staff issues - they need to be prepared before these issues happen

• I find subjects, such as ethics to be extremely dry normally, and having ADHD I have a hard time focusing on an unengaging course. I really enjoy your presenting techniques and find that you are able to keep my wondering mind engaged.

• Other ethics courses were never memorable in the way that yours is

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