Overview 

Being an accountant in today's environment is a challenge! Our clients are faced with many dilemmas and temptations to stray off the right path as they try to survive in these difficult times.

We have a huge responsibility to our clients, the profession and ourselves to be held accountable to the highest ethical standards and to instil trust and respect for our advice and guidance. These ideas flow and develop from the personal space, to how we conduct our business and are mantled by our professional responsibilities in terms of the respective professional body’s Code of Professional Conduct.

This session is designed to give you space to reflect on your own personal journey, and consider what you are striving for during these difficult times, as well as what you won't tolerate. Who we are as a person is not separate from who we are as a professional - a concept to be explored during this session.

We have invited Caryn Maitland CA(SA), an expert on ethics in her own right, to present this webinar on 18 August 2022 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. where she will put forward ideas to help you reflect on your own ethics as we all strive to maintain the highest ethical standards for our profession. 

Learning objectives

By attending this webinar you will gain the following competencies:

• Acting honestly with personal integrity, accountability and trustworthiness when interacting with others.
• Have an analytical mind that understands the interrelationship between governance, ethics, work values and the law.
• Understand how ethical leadership impacts business and corporate culture.
• Have a strong appreciation of the core concepts of the accountant's Code of Professional Conduct.

• Identify and work through ethical dilemmas through the use of a variety of models that apply ethics-based reasoning. 

Content

The webinar will cover the following topics:

• Ethics - an introduction.
• Ethics and you as a person.
• Ethics and you as the accountant.
• Current challenges to our ethical compass.
• The impact of ethical leadership.
• Our Code of Professional Conduct.
• Ethical dilemmas and how to solve them.

Obtaining your CPD certificate

This training is compliant with the International Education Standard (IES7) issued by the International Federation of Accountants and recognised for CPD by relevant professional bodies including ACCA, CIMA, IAC, IIA, SAIBA, SAICA and SAIPA.

All attendees are issued with a CPD certificate available in an online profile.

About the presenter

Caryn Maitland CA(SA)

Caryn Maitland is a Chartered Accountant (SA). She has been a member of IRBA as a registered auditor and accountant since 2002 and is also a registered member of SAICA.

Caryn has lectured Auditing and Accounting at various institutions and has conducted independent workshops and seminars for professional accountants since 2006 on various topics.

Caryn has presented on the national tour for the annual Legislation Update with ProBeta Training (Pty) Ltd in 2014 and 2015, as well as on the FASSET national tour for the Tax Administration Act in 2014.  She is also involved with the annual SAICA SMP Technical tour.

Who should attend?

The following persons will benefit from attending this webinar:

• Professional accountants including: CA(SA), Professional Accountant(SA), AGA(SA), FCCA, BAP(SA), BA(SA) and ACCA.
• Registered auditors.
• Accounting officers.
• Bookkeepers.
• Trainee accountants.

Price           

• R 450.00 - Online admission - Individual.
• Group Price 1 - R950 (maximum of 5 attendees)
• Group Price 2 - R1 850 (maximum of 10 attendees)
• Group Price 3 - R2 650 (maximum of 15 attendees)

Steps to register for the event:

If you already have a profile, login and register for the webinar.

If you don’t have a profile, create a free profile then login and register for the webinar.

Click here to create a free profile (There is no charge to create a profile and gain access to our free Monthly Practice Management Series).

Click here to find out about the Technical Resource Centre & CPD Subscription options.

Additional material

By attending this webinar you will be provided with:

• A summarised slide presentation.
• Reference documents and/or course material where available.
• You can ask questions during the webinar and you will also have access to the presenter after the webinar.