Ethical Issues for Accountants

How confident are you that you always understand the appropriate, professional course of action in difficult and ambiguous situations?

Ethics, integrity and sound professional conduct are essential qualities for chartered accountants. Professional bodies have codes to guide their members – but what impact does this have on the day-to-day decisions that you are faced with?

This new peer-enriched learning course, Ethical Issues for Accountants, tackles the subject head on. The course features 28 true-to-life case studies of ethical dilemmas which encourage learners to delve into the complexities and stimulate debate. Taking viewpoints of accountants at various stages in their career, it explores issues from professional practice, family business, audit, tax and professional relationships.

Based on research carried out by David Molyneaux, and sponsored by ICAS, this course takes a case study approach, with realistic scenarios exploring the issues from professional practice, family business, audit and tax, and general professional relationships.

Ethical Issues for Accountants is a peer-enriched learning course. Peer-enriched learning courses stimulate intelligent dialogue and debate and provide a valuable and evolving resource of professional knowledge and experience. These courses are topical, practical and highly relevant to today’s changing market.

Each module is split into two activities: Understanding the issues and Putting it into practice. The first encourages learners to think about a topic, drawing on their own professional experience and knowledge. The second helps learners to put ideas and/or theories into practice as part of their day-to-day work.

Professional firm/general practice

Family business

Audit

Tax practice

Professional relationships

This course includes case studies that are relevant to accountants at all stages of their careers – whether newly qualified or more senior experienced professionals.