Professional Issues Update - VIRTUAL

Overview

VIRTUAL ONLY EVENT

 
1-2:45  Professional Ethics: Effective leaders need to know how to navigate ethical challenges successfully. In this course, we will explore the world of behavioral ethics – biases, pressures, and situational factors - that affect many in their daily ethical decision making. 
Jaclyn T. Badeau, CPA, CGMA, MBA
Badeau Consulting, LLC

2:45-3:00 Break 

3:00-4:45  Legislative and professional issues update: Hot topics impacting the CPA profession and taxation. Current trends in business and industry, current Congressional issues CPAs should care about and new KyCPA initiatives. 
Darlene Zibart, CPA and Shelby Williams
Kentucky Society of CPAs

  
Please remember to print or download course materials prior to event date

Objectives

• Understand that professional codes of conduct should be followed and sometimes you will still need to make ethical judgments that fall outside of these codes of conducts
• Be familiar with various concepts of Behavioral Ethics and their impact on ethical decision making
• Explore how many recent and past ethical scandals are directly attributed to various biases, pressures, and situational factors through case study and other interactive discussions
• Understand 4 Steps to Acting Ethically