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Ethics Aren't for the Byrdes in Ozark

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Member Price $59

Non-Member Price $79

Overview

Professional codes of ethics provide guidance to professionals who are frequently required to choose between doing the right thing and the wrong thing. Sometimes, professionals violate their ethical code and do the wrong thing for what they rationalize is the right reason. This session uses the popular television show "Ozark" and its multiple examples of seemingly good people doing bad things for the right reason to define ethics as well as explore why people make unethical choices and how they justify those choices.

Highlights

  • Ethical business behavior
  • Ethical business decisions
  • Ethical management decisions
  • Ethical decisions in human resource management

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

All business professionals

Objectives

  • Define ethics
  • Explore how people make decisions
  • Learn about the dangers of gray areas of ethics
  • Learn ways to test decisions

Preparation

None

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Daniel Porter, The Pros & The Cons, LLC

Daniel Porter, CFE has conducted civil and criminal investigations for over 20 years as a licensed private investigator, a loss prevention manager, and as an investigator with the State of Tennessee. While he was Investigations Manager with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (an organization with over 4,000 employees and a budget of more than $1 Billion) he created an investigations section and was responsible for investigations of fraud, waste, and abuse. Currently, he is an investigator in the Special Investigations Unit in the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, of the State of Tennessee where he investigates fraud involving public funds. He is a Cum Laude graduate from Middle Tennessee State University’s Criminal Justice Program and a CFE. He has made presentations at AGA, IIA, and CFE conferences as well as to governmental agencies in various states including the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations and the Indiana CPA Society. He has provided law enforcement training certified by the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission. He is a guest lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University and the Vanderbilt University School of Law. He previously served as President and Vice President of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and was selected the Chapter’s Member of the Year in 2003.

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Non-Member Price $79

Member Price $59