Learn how to navigate the requirements of laws, regulations, standards, and rules, and the demands made by your leadership team and boards
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. The demands of the leaders and owners can sometimes 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.
Lead Instructor, FCPA, FCA
Arun Mathur, FCPA, FCA, LPA has over 35 years of teaching and corporate training experience. He is a retired Partner at Gerald Duthie & Co. LLP, where he provided professional services to a diverse group of clients. Arun is also Owner and Lead Instructor at UltimQuest Knowledge Inc., offering corporate training on improving governance, ethics, internal control, performance measurement and related topics. He provides live and online training through CPA bodies across Canada and Bermuda. Arun served for several years on the Board for HealthForce Ontario Marketing and Recruitment Agency, and was also Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee there and for the Trillium Gift of Life Network. He has served on the CMA Ontario's Review Committee prior to the merger as well.
