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Build Your Ethical Muscles

This ethics course works through a wide variety of situations and scenarios, to strengthen your ethical courage, and your tactics for dealing with dilemmas. ​

Created byStephen Priddle
4.5
(169 reviews)
AdvancedUpdated Sep 26, 2023
Build Your Ethical Muscles

What You'll Learn

check_circleBe able to use different strategies to resolve ethical issues at work
check_circleBe courageous at dealing with ethical conflict
check_circleMore easily accept the unfair consequences that can result from taking an ethical stand
check_circleBe resolved to take the ethical high road, come what may, in your career

About This Course

This ethics course created and presented by a veteran ethics instructor with wide and deep real-life ethics experience, works through a wide variety of situations and scenarios, to strengthen your ethical courage, and your tactics for dealing with dilemmas.

AGENDA

  • Ethics and provisions
  • The unfair complaint or false accusation
  • Corporate Codes of Ethics issues
  • Resolutions in multiple scenarios
  • Get them fired for ethics
  • Standing up for minority shareholders
  • When the result of your ethical stand seems unfair
  • The iceberg issue
  • Lots of cases in applying ethical thinking
  • Ethics when you are not at work, is there a divide?
  • Holding to ethics does you more good than you realize
  • Where should the rules come from?

    And more

  • Your Instructor

    Stephen Priddle
    Stephen Priddle
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    Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMA is the President and Founder of Practical PD, Courses for Accountants. Stephen is also the Vice-President, Finance & CFO of Fidus Analytics Inc.  In addition, he is a Board member, co-owner and Corporate Secretary of the SureWx group of companies, a global aviation business, which he was the CFO for 12 years previously. An engaging and experienced instructor, Stephen Priddle weaves practical tips together with stories from his business experience and input from participants. Seasoning the mix with a dose of accounting humour, he serves up useful and dynamic courses which have been attended by over 36,000. When speaking, he is candid about errors he has made in his career and the lessons that can be learned from them. Someone said: “humans are hard-wired to learn from stories” – Stephen is in part a business/accounting storyteller, who draws out the lessons from the stories. Stephen’s teaching experience includes presenting courses for over 70 accounting bodies and organizations in Canada and abroad. He has been a Session Leader in the CPA Professional Education Program, and has taught at the University of Toronto and Carleton University. He has moderated in the legacy CA, CMA and CGA program. Stephen is a prolific author. His published business, accounting and finance cases are used by many organizations. Stephen has nearly 40 years of varied business experience. After working with KPMG for five years, he moved into industry, where he has worked for public and private companies. He has gained a wide range of experience in financial reporting, treasury management, merger & acquisition and other business matters. Through his courses, he interacts with hundreds of financial leaders a year and thus stays on the leading edge in terms of best practices and hot topics. Stephen obtained his CPA, CA and CMA designations following graduation from Carleton University with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree, accounting major.

    Credit Information

    Do these courses count toward my professional development requirements?

    This portal is provided as a training and development resource for City of Markham employees. Every course is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, is quantifiable in hours, and is verifiable — you receive a documented certificate of completion for every course you finish, stored on LearnFormula indefinitely.

    If you hold a professional designation (for example in engineering, accounting, human resources, or law), courses may be counted as professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities toward your continuing professional development. Individual practitioners are responsible for confirming that an activity meets the requirements of their professional body. For questions about the City of Markham's training and development policies, please speak with your people leader or Human Resources.

    What Students Are Saying

    4.5
    Student's Choice
    169 reviews

    Frequently Asked Questions

    We are a registered provider with 327+ associations and regulatory bodies worldwide. We operate across 29 global markets including Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK. Every course page clearly displays its specific accreditations. Upon completion, you receive a professional certificate that can be validated online. Our certificates include all necessary accreditation details, credit hours, and completion dates, and are formatted specifically to meet the submission requirements of most global regulatory bodies.