Ethics without Fear for Accounting and Finance Professionals

Finance and accounting professionals are on a pedestal and are often held to a higher standard. Keeping your ethical skills sharpened is crucial to...

8/26/2026 11:00am - 1:00pm  |  Online  |  AICPA

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CPE Categories: Ethics (2 CPE)

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Description

Finance and accounting professionals are on a pedestal and are often held to a higher standard. Keeping your ethical skills sharpened is crucial to reducing your fear and raising your courage as you solve tough decisions in real-time. This fast-paced and interactive presentation will help you practice exactly that.

What will you gain? The ability to choose the most effective path in daily situations, so that when a significant crisis hits you are comfortable in your actions. Be ready, be courageous, be fair, and be consistent.

Instructor: Karl Ahlrichs

Target Audience

All employees at all levels will benefit. Anyone who has client contact, or is part of leadership or supervision in any way

Course Objectives

· Distinguish between Teaching and Termination moments caused by ethical missteps.

· Apply mentoring and coaching methods to ethics

· Identify the impact ethics has on the Accounting profession

· Recognize leadership with ethical awareness

· Apply ethics to Generative AI Tools

Subjects

· Case studies that clarify the challenges of making appropriate ethical decisions in the fast-paced modern organizational world

· A frank discussion of how to decide between a teaching moment rather than a termination moment when bad decisions are made.

· Applying the structure of understanding ethical dilemmas, and then applying the nine-step resolution process to arrive at a fair and consistent decision.

Prerequisites

Experience in an organization at any level. A desire to ensure you’re following ethical procedures in your company.