Professional Ethics for Louisiana CPAs

Overview

Commitment to ethics is crucial for a CPA’s success. This Board-approved course helps you navigate ethical challenges by reviewing key concepts, AICPA and Louisiana Board of Accountancy rules, and providing frameworks and techniques for ethical decision-making, ensuring you maintain public trust in the profession.

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Objectives

  • Recall the definitions of and key concepts related to ethical reasoning and ways they relate to a CPA's work
  • Recognize the principles of ethical theories, including utilitarian ethics, deontological ethics, stakeholder ethics, and virtue ethics and identify how such theories can be applied in practical situations in life and in business
  • Recognize certain preeminent core values of accountancy, including integrity, objectivity, and independence
  • Recall important rules in the Louisiana Accountancy Act and guidance from other important Louisiana sources
  • Remember the AICPA's principles, general standards, core values, and conceptual framework as you make decisions when encountering ethical challenges

Designed For:

Louisiana CPAs in all stages of their career 


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Course Information

Adding additional credit may change exam requirements.

Advanced Preparation: None