Ethics - That Feeling in Your Gut (On-Demand - CPABC)
Overview
CPAs face a variety of ethics issues in their work. They need the ability to navigate these issues wisely and professionally.
This course is a provocative discussion of ethical issues in accounting, tax and business and their resolution focusing on an important component, your gut. A recent survey revealed that 75% of CPAs had failed to listen to their gut on an ethical issue in their career and regretted it. The presenter shares personal and other experiences with ethically challenging situations, and ways to deal with them.
Access expires 180 days from purchase date |
Applicable for
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- use the powerful influence of their well-informed gut to help with ethical dilemmas
- have more approaches for dealing with ethically challenging situations
- have confidence that they will in the end with ethics
- have more moral courage to take an ethics stand
Content
- consider the role of your gut, versus analysis in ethical decision-making
- the risks of ignoring your gut
- what is your ethics gut and where does it gut come from?
- applying your gut in difficult scenarios
- ethics issue or professional disagreement?
- truth in government funding documents
- being ready to be fired for taking a stand
- an eclectic of ethical scenarios, primarily from real-life
- ethics in society…testing and future CPAs
- diversification of ethics risk, the employed versus the public accountant
- ethics in the job interview – is the candidate strong on ethics?
- are fines a cost of doing business?
- ethics pressure and coercion by incentives
- ethics and travel expenses
- another way to punish the fraudster
- learning from ethics history
- understand that you should come out on top in the end!
Course Content Created: February 2023
Course Content Updated: August 2025
The information is current as of the creation or last updated date. While we strive to keep our inventory updated and periodically remove outdated titles, changes in accounting, tax, legislation and technology may occur. Purchasers should note the date and verify for themselves if the course is still relevant to their needs.Presenter
Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMAAbout This Product
On-Demand Courses by CPABC are recordings from live seminars, made available with any corresponding handout material, where available.These titles are eligible for Verifiable CPD Hours – in order to claim these hours as verifiable, you will be required to successfully complete a short quiz. You will be able to print or save your electronic certificate of completion.
Please note that not all on-demand courses include downloadable materials such as course notes or slides.
How to get started
Upon completion of purchase, go to mylms.bccpa.ca and log in using your CPABC Online Services credentials. Click “Go to your Courses and Materials” to go to your Learning Center, then find and click on your course title.
Course Dates & Registration
- 2
- CPD Hours
- 2
- Ethics Hours
- 0
- AML Hours
- 3
- Credits
Starting April 1, 2026, a 2.1% fee will be applied to all credit card transactions. Learn more about this fee and how it relates to PD registrations.
Ethics - That Feeling in Your Gut (On-Demand - CPABC)
- 2
- CPD Hours
- 2
- Ethics Hours
- 0
- AML Hours
- 3
- Credits
Overview
CPAs face a variety of ethics issues in their work. They need the ability to navigate these issues wisely and professionally.
This course is a provocative discussion of ethical issues in accounting, tax and business and their resolution focusing on an important component, your gut. A recent survey revealed that 75% of CPAs had failed to listen to their gut on an ethical issue in their career and regretted it. The presenter shares personal and other experiences with ethically challenging situations, and ways to deal with them.
Access expires 180 days from purchase date |
Applicable for
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- use the powerful influence of their well-informed gut to help with ethical dilemmas
- have more approaches for dealing with ethically challenging situations
- have confidence that they will in the end with ethics
- have more moral courage to take an ethics stand
Content
- consider the role of your gut, versus analysis in ethical decision-making
- the risks of ignoring your gut
- what is your ethics gut and where does it gut come from?
- applying your gut in difficult scenarios
- ethics issue or professional disagreement?
- truth in government funding documents
- being ready to be fired for taking a stand
- an eclectic of ethical scenarios, primarily from real-life
- ethics in society…testing and future CPAs
- diversification of ethics risk, the employed versus the public accountant
- ethics in the job interview – is the candidate strong on ethics?
- are fines a cost of doing business?
- ethics pressure and coercion by incentives
- ethics and travel expenses
- another way to punish the fraudster
- learning from ethics history
- understand that you should come out on top in the end!
Course Content Created: February 2023
Course Content Updated: August 2025
The information is current as of the creation or last updated date. While we strive to keep our inventory updated and periodically remove outdated titles, changes in accounting, tax, legislation and technology may occur. Purchasers should note the date and verify for themselves if the course is still relevant to their needs.Presenter
Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMAAbout This Product
On-Demand Courses by CPABC are recordings from live seminars, made available with any corresponding handout material, where available.These titles are eligible for Verifiable CPD Hours – in order to claim these hours as verifiable, you will be required to successfully complete a short quiz. You will be able to print or save your electronic certificate of completion.
Please note that not all on-demand courses include downloadable materials such as course notes or slides.
How to get started
Upon completion of purchase, go to mylms.bccpa.ca and log in using your CPABC Online Services credentials. Click “Go to your Courses and Materials” to go to your Learning Center, then find and click on your course title.
Course Dates & Registration
Starting April 1, 2026, a 2.1% fee will be applied to all credit card transactions. Learn more about this fee and how it relates to PD registrations.