Selected Ethics Topics - 2024 - 2025

Overview

This course will help you to stay current on recent changes to the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, as well as keep you abreast of emerging trends in ethics standards and regulatory initiatives and their potential impact on your practice. We will also explore frequent practitioner ethics compliance challenges, including competence, due professional care, audit quality, and independence.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

• Stay in compliance with recent ethics standards changes that impact your practice.
• Learn about key regulatory changes and initiatives impacting CPAs and the future of the profession.
• Discuss emerging issues and standard-setting activity that could affect your practice in the future.
• Explore practical applications of the standards and hear about common practice issues and challenges. Examples include private equity, technology, tax planning, audit quality, regulatory enforcement and standard-setting environment.
• Learn how failure to follow the standards can result in unwanted regulatory actions and publicity.

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Members in public

Objectives

After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

• Stay in compliance with ethics requirements
• Recall recent standard-setting projects and changes to the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct
• Analyze the regulatory requirements created by other state boards of accountancy, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy, and recent regulatory initiatives
• Apply these standards in practice.

Preparation

None