Ethics: CPAs' Recent Illegal and Discreditable Acts

Description

If the FBI learns from crooks, what can we learn from CPAs who went rogue and lost their licenses?

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

Get the inside details on these ethics cases:

• CPA volunteer non-profit treasurer steals $60,000
  
• CPA indicted in murder-for-hire plot
  
• CPA arrested for falsifying insurance applications
  
• CPA sentenced for tax fraud
  
• Small town CPA's investment kickback scheme
  
• CPA threatened over shark `attack'
  
• Partners uncover Office PIC and CFE stealing
  
• CFO..`From Day One, I knew I'd just crossed a line.'
  
• CPA launders drug and gambling money
  
• CPA guilty of attempted murder...of ex-boss
  
• CPA steals from pro ball team and a client fighting cancer
  
• Sole practitioner CPA fund administrator convicted of $40 million Ponzi scheme
  
• Regulator steals confidential info to help CPA firm
  

Objectives

Attend this ethics presentation to understand:

• How any CPA can put your firm or company at risk
  
• Red flags of acts discreditable to the profession
  
• Requirements for independence, competence, confidentiality, and other requirements
  

Designed For

CEOs, CPAs, internal auditors, regulators, controllers, CFOs, compliance officers, risk managers