Ethics without Fear for Accounting and Finance Professionals

Overview

Finance and accounting professionals are on a pedestal and are often held to a higher standard. Keeping your ethical skills sharpened is crucial to reducing your fear and raising your courage as you solve tough decisions in real-time. This fast-paced and interactive presentation will help you practice exactly that.

What will you gain? The ability to choose the most effective path in daily situations, so that when a significant crisis hits you are comfortable in your actions. Be ready, be courageous, be fair, and be consistent.

Highlights

Case studies that clarify the challenges of making appropriate ethical decisions in the fast-paced modern organizational world

A frank discussion of how to decide between a teaching moment rather than a termination moment when bad decisions are made.

Applying the structure of understanding ethical dilemmas, and then applying the nine-step resolution process to arrive at a fair and consistent decision.

Prerequisites

Experience in an organization at any level. A desire to ensure you’re following ethical procedures in your company.

Designed For

All employees at all levels will benefit. Anyone who has client contact, or is part of leadership or supervision in any way

Objectives

Distinguish between Teaching and Termination moments caused by ethical missteps.
Apply mentoring and coaching methods to ethics
Identify the impact ethics has on the Accounting profession
Recognize leadership with ethical awareness
Apply ethics to Generative AI Tools

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Leader(s):

Karl Ahlrichs, Business Learning Institute

Leader Bios

Karl Ahlrichs, Business Learning Institute

Karl Ahlrichs is a Human Capital expert in the people side of finance and accounting and holds the highest certifications of the Human Capital field. Involved with the AICPA for 15 years as a content provider and thought leader, with a focus on Ethics and Critical Thinking. Karl is currently a contributor to the AICPA and Business Learning Institute catalog of continuing education and is a contributing author to the Journal of Accountancy. Karl has direct experience in with the strategies accounting and finance needs to recover from the impact of COVID. He is one of fewer than 800 speaking professionals who are currently qualified as Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) by the National Speakers Association and routinely presents to business and industry audiences on challenging subjects.

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