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Description
In today's complex business environment, ethical decision-making is more critical than ever. This seminar provides a comprehensive roadmap for developing and implementing an effective ethics program tailored to the unique challenges faced by organizations. Participants will explore the essential components of an ethics program, including creating a robust code of conduct, fostering a culture of integrity, and ensuring compliance with professional standards and regulations.
Through interactive discussions and real-world case studies, attendees will learn practical strategies for identifying ethical risks, designing proactive policies, understanding the roles of ethics officers, exploring the stages of the ethics-auditing process, and empowering teams to uphold ethical principles. This session will also cover best practices for monitoring, evaluating, and continuously improving an ethics program to adapt to evolving professional and legal requirements.
Whether you are looking to establish a new ethics program or enhance an existing one, this seminar will equip you with the tools and insights needed to strengthen trust, accountability, and ethical leadership in your organization.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this session, students should be able to:
- Understand the responsibility of the corporation to stakeholders.
- Understand why businesses need ethics programs.
- List the minimum requirements for an ethics program.
- Describe the role of codes of ethics in identifying key corporate risk areas.
- Understand the role of ethics officers.
- Identify factors in successful ethics training, program types, and goals.
- Examine the ways ethical standards are monitored, audited, and enforced.
- Examine the role of the ethics audit.
- Explore the stages of the ethics-auditing process.
- Identify integrity measurement frameworks.
Who Will Benefit
CPAs, CPA students, CFOs, controllers, financial managers, compliance officers, internal auditors, managers, CEOs, COOS, and other senior executives, in house legal counsel, HR professionals, board members and governance professionals, non-profit and government professionals, business owners, and etc.
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 if 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)
Jennifer Lynch, MBA, CPA, CMA, CFE, CFI, CBV, ABV, is an expert witness in the field of forensic and investigative accounting. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant, a Certified Management Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified Forensic Investigator, and a Chartered Business Valuator. She is the President and Principal Forensic Accountant at Lynch & Associates providing comprehensive and high-quality forensic accounting services for diverse clients. She is a professor at York University teaching “Earnings Management and Forensic Accounting” for their Master of Financial Accountability MFAc program. She has also co-authored a book for LexisNexis Canada Inc., Financial Crimes in Canada: An Overview of Money Laundering and Fraud.