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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
This seminar will help controllers and CFOs consider ethical dilemmas they may face, regardless of the size of the organization or the role they play within it.
The CPA profession requires its members to protect the public interest. This places controllers and CFOs between the requirements of laws, regulations, standards and rules, and the demands made from their leadership team and boards. Often, the demands of the leaders and owners contradict the rules and regulations. Thus, controllers and CFOs must perform a balancing act between these two forces.
In this course, we demonstrate that ethical values and business practices are essential to balance these forces and to grow and succeed in any business organization. The course will help controllers and CFOs consider actual ethical dilemmas they face. It will prepare them for dilemmas they may encounter in the future, regardless of the size of the organization or the role they play within the organization.
We provide a step-by-step approach that will help controllers and CFOs navigate through complex and sensitive ethical issues. We demonstrate how to take a risk-based approach that considers the probability and impact of ethics-related risks occurring. We examine the risk related to the owner managers, staff, customers, suppliers, lenders and regulators. Then, we consider prevention, detection and mitigation strategies for each type of risk.
Topics Covered:
- Dilemmas faced by controllers and CFOs
- Ethics fundamentals
- Return on Investment from ethical business practices
- How to perform an ethics risk analysis
- Identification and mitigation of each type of risk
- Emerging issues for controllers and CFOs
- Self-assessment exercises
Key Takeaways
By the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
- Examine the role of the controller and the CFO through an ethics lens.
- Explain how to utilize an ethics risk analysis for your organization.
- Describe ethical risks related to the owner managers, staff, customers, suppliers, lenders and regulators.
- Identify and evaluate risks you are currently facing in your own organization.
- Identify steps to prevent, detect and mitigate ethics risks that have a high probability and high impact.
Who Will Benefit
Controllers and CFOs looking for guidance on how to address and identify ethical dilemmas.
Disclaimer
The views expressed in the course are non-authoritative and have not been formally endorsed by CPA Ontario and do not reflect the views of CPA Ontario. The information included in the course is for general information purposes only.
CPA Ontario, the presenters and the authors do not accept any responsibility or liability that might occur directly or indirectly as a consequence of the use or application of or reliance on this material.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Arun Mathur, FCPA/FCA, owner and lead instructor at UltimQuest Knowledge Inc., offers corporate training on improving governance, ethics, ESG, internal control, fraud prevention, KPI and related topics. Provides live and online training through CPA bodies across Canada and Bermuda. Partner, Gerald Duthie & Co. LLP, providing professional services to diverse clients. Served on the Board at HealthForce Ontario Marketing and Recruitment Agency, Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and at Trillium Gift of Life Network.