Professionalism and Ethics for Finance

Online Course on Professionalism and Ethics

Professionalism and Ethics for Accountants will enable you to discover:
• the challenges and rewards of behaving ethically in the workplace
• consider your own moral values and
• explore perspectives that will challenge your views.

Our Professionalism and Ethics course enables learners to

 
• Understand the challenges and rewards of behaving ethically
• Consider their own moral values
• Explore perspectives that challenge views
• Consider the impact of organisational and cultural contexts
• Understand the value of corporate social responsibility initiatives

Rating:	100% said this course met their professional development objectives
Reviews:
“Made me think about ethics in the workplace environment, more than studying the ‘right and wrong’ approach to ethics.”
“It expanded my ethical reasoning and challenged my perspective.”
“It has been a long time since I got so much out of a CPD course – the style is exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
You can review this course using the questionnaire in the course completion area.

Learning outcomes of Professionalism and Ethics

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Understanding ethics
• Defining ethics
• Ethics, morals and values
• Why ethics matters
• Different ethical perspectives
• Reasons for acting ethically

Ethics and you
• Your personal values and boundaries
• Your organisational and professional context
• Concerns about ethical issues
• Ethics in your everyday life

Ethics in practice
• Why people act unethically
• Why ethical issues are difficult to deal with
• Ethics and the law
• Codes of conduct

Recognising and resolving ethical dilemmas
• Identifying an “ethical issue”
• Using decision-making frameworks
• Making and evaluating decisions
• Communicating about ethical issues

Debating ethical issues
• Transparency vs. confidentiality
• Ethics vs. success
• Ethics across cultures
• The real value of corporate social responsibility

Interactive online course

Professionalism and Ethics for Accountants is part of our interactive issues and debates suite of learning. Issues and Debates 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 you to think about a topic, drawing on your own professional experience and knowledge. The second helps you to put ideas and/or theories into practice as part of your day-to-day work.

Target audience for Professionalism and Ethics

This course is designed to appeal to accounting and finance professionals working at all levels.

About the Author of Professionalism and Ethics

Anna Faherty is a writer, lecturer and consultant working across the publishing, museum and charity sectors.

She has hands-on management experience as a director of a multi-million pound publishing division and a trustee of a small independent museum.
 

Flexible learning

Learners take their own route through the topics covered in the course. They will learn at their own pace through a variety of activities designed to accommodate a range of learning styles.

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