Master the ethical framework, avoid common pitfalls, and protect your professional reputation in an AI-driven world.
In this 4-hour course we'll cover all the basics regarding ethics for accountants. It's a completely updated 2026 version of my previous course of the same name.
We'll review the oversight and disciplinary process, as well as the Code of Conduct for CPA Ontario, BC and Alberta. The course also includes new actual disciplinary cases, as well as sections on the Bernie Madoff and QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency platform frauds.
And we'll conduct a deep dive into violations by rules of professional conduct for the province of Ontario as well as the cases for BC and Alberta. I'll show you what the top seven broken rules have been in Ontario since 1987 from a summary of all 1,072 discipline cases since then. We'll see that these seven rules account for 89% of all discipline cases so you can focus on what catches most CPAs.
And we'll go through more than a dozen recent discipline cases of CPAs who have broken the rules including what led them to do it, as well as the reasons why they received the sanctions they did. This will include income tax and GST/HST fraud, employee fraud, client loans, conflicts of interest, misleading statements, CPD deficiencies, CSRE 2400 compilation and review issues, CSQM 1 quality management, and regulator non-cooperation.
New 2026 sections connect artificial intelligence to existing CPA obligations, including confidentiality, competence, bias, hallucinations, cybersecurity, documentation, and accountability.
The result is a practical, engaging ethics program where you'll earn 4 verifiable professional ethics CPD hours while learning how to protect your reputation, your clients, your employer, and the profession.
WHO WILL BENEFIT
CPAs wishing to learn all about the ethical rules they must comply with and satisfy their 4-hour ethics requirement.
Writer, Trainer, On-demand Course Developer and Acclaimed Author
David Trahair, CPA, CA, is an author, trainer, and eLearning developer who creates on-demand video courses for CPAs across Canada. His courses cover topics including personal finance, ethics, AI, and Microsoft Excel. David is also the author of six personal finance books, three of which are national bestsellers. Through his firm, he helps CPAs build practical skills through engaging, self-paced learning.
Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.
Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.
