Ethics & Accountability – May 2021

Description

$120 (per person) includes an online webinar for 2 hours of CPE credit

Ethics, values, morals, principles…what is the interplay among these and what is their importance in influencing auditors to maintain accountability? Why is a professional code of conduct an essential element in identifying a profession? What has been the evolution of the IIA’s Code of Ethics and what is the meaning of the key principles of integrity, objectivity, confidentiality, and competency? After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• define ethics, values, morals, and principles
• describe the importance of a code or conduct for a profession
• explain the essential nature of the IIA’s principles of integrity, objectivity, confidentiality, and competency
• evaluate a code of ethics to determine adequacy in establishing accountability

Program Level: Basic
Field of Study: Ethics
Who Should Attend: Auditors
Class Size Limit: 40
Prerequisites: none
Advanced Preparation: none
Instructional Method: Webinar (Group Internet Based)
CPE Credit Hours: 2 hours that qualify toward the IIA’s ethics requirements
Date: May 18, 2021
Time: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Central

Ethics & Accountability Webinar Leader:

Carolyn Conn, Ph.D., CPA, CGMA, CFE
Carolyn Conn, Ph.D., CPA, CGMA, CFE has spent her career on both the administrative and faculty side of higher education. In administrative positions, she had primary responsibility for most aspects of financial and accounting operations and served as liaison to the IT staff for accounting software development. She also assisted in several fraud investigations which sparked her interest in ethics and ethical decision-making. She is an experienced instructor of academic and CPE courses in accounting ethics and is an award-winning author of teaching cases on the topics of fraud prevention and detection as well as accounting ethics.