Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: * Identify the AICPA ethics requirements for practitioners in industry * Recognize the current regulatory environment for public and non-public companies – How do they compare? * Ask themselves if individuals are ethical and are accountants supposed to be different? * Distinguish bias versus professional skepticism in accounting judgments * Gain insights into if there are inter-generational differences in ethics? * Discover threats and implement a safeguards approach to resolving ethical dilemmas * Know AICPA’s restructuring of the Ethics Code * Identify confidential information and conflicts of interest – Recent guidance

* Receive a fast-paced overview of ethics standards promulgated by the AICPA and State Societies as they apply to CPAs working in the business world * Examine the connections between ethics principles, formal rules, and the profession’s public responsibility * Understand the ethical dimensions of the responsibilities CPAs have when preparing financial statements * Become aware of AICPA’s ethics guidelines for resolving issues affecting the CPAs working in the business world * Receive up-to-the-minute coverage of evolving issues and recent revisions to the Ethics Code

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