This course is intended for anyone charged with designing or implementing processes aimed at creating organizational change and who needs to understand the impact that ethical business practices have on organizational behavior, culture, and business practices, individuals responsible for assessing their organization’s values, ethic programs, training, policies and procedures or have an impact on their organization’s expectations or standards for ethical employee behavior.

The continuing influence and impact which personal and professional ethics exerts upon individuals, organizations and society, and the factors which influence organizational ethics, has been thrust into the headlines of global newspapers. The ethical issues faced daily by organizations and their employees are neither always straightforward nor easy to resolve.

Results of unethical behavior by accounting/audit professionals, and the impact of ethics upon organizations, is a topic of growing concern in corporate board rooms around the world.

This course will examine the timely and important topic of ethics and its relevance and importance to overall corporate wellbeing. In particular, what factors influence the likelihood that an individual will act ethically or less than ethical, and what this means to management, the organization, and internal controls in general.

Please note that this course is not intended nor designed, to review the Code of Ethics for any specific organization, country, State, municipality or government entity.