Professionalism and Ethics Accountants | Nelson Croom | Accounting and Finance Portfolio |

From the Enron scandal and BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill to MPs expenses and Wiki Leaks, issues of trust, transparency, ethics and corporate social responsibility have never been so high on the organisational agenda. Yet recognising ethical issues and taking appropriate and effective decisions isn't easy. Spanning both home and personal worlds, and never black and white, the management of ethical dilemmas is a challenging situations for all professionals.

Professionalism and Ethics for Accountants helps the learner discover the challenges and rewards of behaving ethically in the workplace, consider their own moral values and explore perspectives that will challenge their views.

Professionalism and Ethics for Accountants is part of Nelson Croom's Issues and Debates suite of learning. Issues and Debates courses stimulate intelligent dialogue and debate and provide a valuable and evolving resource of professional knowledge and experience. These courses are topical, practical and highly relevant to today's changing market. Each module is split into two activities: Understanding the issues and Putting it into practice. The first encourages you to think about a topic, drawing on your own professional experience and knowledge. The second helps you to put ideas and/or theories into practice as part of your day-to-day work.

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Professionalism and Ethics for Accountants enables the learner to:

Understand the challenges and rewards of behaving ethically
Consider their own moral values
Explore perspectives that challenge views
Consider the impact of organisational and cultural contexts
Understand the value of corporate social responsibility initiatives

Learning outcomes

Understanding ethics

Defining ethics

Ethics, morals and values

Why ethics matters

Different ethical perspectives

Reasons for acting ethically

Ethics and you

Your personal values and boundaries

Your organisational and professional context

Concerns about ethical issues

Ethics in your everyday life

Ethics in practice

Why people act unethically

Why ethical issues are difficult to deal with

Ethics and the law

Codes of conduct

Recognising and resolving ethical dilemmas

Identifying an "ethical issue"

Using decision-making frameworks

Making and evaluating decisions

Communicating about ethical issues

Debating ethical issues

Transparency vs. confidentiality

Ethics vs. success

Ethics across cultures

The real value of corporate social responsibility

Target audience

This course is designed to appeal to accounting and finance professionals working at all levels.

About the Author

Anna Faherty is a writer, lecturer and consultant working across the publishing, museum and charity sectors. She has hands-on management experience as director of a multi-million pound publishing division and is currently on the board of a small independent museum.