The CPA profession requires its members to protect the public interest. This places controllers and CFOs between the requirements of laws, regulations, standards and rules, and the demands made by their leadership team and boards. Often, the demands of the leaders and owners contradict the rules and regulations. Thus, controllers and CFOs must perform a balancing act between these two forces.

In this course, we demonstrate that ethical values and business practices are essential to balance these forces and to grow and succeed in any business organization. The course will help controllers and CFOs consider actual ethical dilemmas they face. It will prepare them for dilemmas they may encounter in the future, regardless of the size of the organization or the role they play within the organization.

We provide a step-by-step approach that will help controllers and CFOs navigate through complex and sensitive ethical issues. We demonstrate how to take a risk-based approach that considers the probability and impact of ethics-related risks occurring. We examine the risk related to the owner-managers, staff, customers, suppliers, lenders and regulators. Then, we consider prevention, detection and mitigation strategies for each type of risk.

Applicable for:
Controllers and CFOs looking for guidance on how to address and identify ethical dilemmas

Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Examine the role of the controller and the CFO through an ethics lens.
• Explain how to utilize an ethics risk analysis for your organization.
• Describe ethical risks related to the owner managers, staff, customers, suppliers, lenders and regulators.
• Identify and evaluate risks you are currently facing in your own organization.
• Identify steps to prevent, detect and mitigate ethics risks that have a high probability and high impact.

Content
The topics in this seminar include:

• Dilemmas faced by controllers and CFOs
• Ethics fundamentals
• Return on Investment from ethical business practices
• How to perform an ethics risk analysis
• Identification and mitigation of each type of risk
• Emerging issues for controllers and CFOs
• Self-assessment exercises

Seminar Leader: Arun Mathur
 
Presented by PD Partner: Ultimquest Knowledge Inc.

What to Expect

• This is a Live Virtual Seminar where class size has been limited to allow for an interactive learning environment. 
• This seminar will not be recorded.
• Course materials, links and credentials will be emailed to you two business days before the seminar. Once sent, the email will also be found in your Account Communication tab of the CPA Manitoba Member Portal. 
• Live webinars have varying levels of expected interaction, and some may require webcam and microphone capabilities – if you have concerns about the interaction required for this course, please email [email protected]

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