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4-Hour Ethics for Accountants 2025

This is more than just CPD credit. Explore gripping real-life ethics cases to build robust ethical judgment and meet your 2025 requirement.

Created byDavid Trahairworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
BeginnerUpdated Jun 13, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleLearn about the oversight and disciplinary process for CPA Ontario, BC and Alberta.
  • check_circleDiscover the layout and content of the Code of Conduct for Ontario, BC and Alberta.
  • check_circleDiscover the top seven broken rules of Ontario’s Code of Conduct that account for 90% of the disciplinary cases.
  • check_circleHear more than a dozen detailed stories of actual discipline cases in Ontario, BC and Alberta.
  • check_circleIncludes 7 key recommendations to keep you out of trouble.

About This Course

Welcome to the updated 2025 edition of Ethics for Accountants.

More than just a mandatory CPD requirement, this course is designed to be an eye-opening, practical, and engaging exploration of ethical standards and real-world challenges faced by accounting professionals today.

Maintaining the public's trust and the integrity of the profession is paramount. This course delves into the foundational principles and regulatory frameworks that govern CPA conduct, equipping you with the knowledge to navigate complex ethical dilemmas and avoid common pitfalls.

Key learning outcomes include:

  • Understanding the CPA Codes of Professional Conduct in Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta.
  • Gaining insight into how provincial CPA bodies oversee members, handle complaints, conduct investigations, and impose sanctions.
  • Analyzing the most frequently violated rules and the reasons behind disciplinary actions.
  • Examining landmark cases of financial misconduct, including the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme and the QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency disaster, to understand the breakdown of ethical safeguards and oversight.
  • Reviewing detailed, actual discipline cases from Ontario, BC, and Alberta involving issues like fraud, professional incompetence, conflict of interest, and lack of cooperation.
  • Identifying pressures, rationalizations, and blind spots that contribute to ethical failures.
  • Discovering practical recommendations and strategies to protect yourself and maintain the highest ethical standards throughout your career.

Stay informed, protect yourself, and uphold the reputation of the profession by mastering the ethical landscape for accountants in 2025.

Course Content

8 activities • 7 videos • duration: 4h 1m

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Introduction, learning outcomes, Madoff fraud1 videos • 38 min
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    Duration 38:36
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Oversight of Ontario CPAs - Part 11 videos • 33 min
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Oversight of Ontario CPAs - Part 21 videos • 33 min
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Discipline cases1 videos • 43 min
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The QuadrigaCX fraud1 videos • 15 min
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Oversight of BC CPAs1 videos • 34 min
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Oversight of Alberta CPAs, Conclusion1 videos • 42 min
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Final Assessment1 quiz

Your Instructor

David Trahair

Acclaimed Author and On-demand Course Developer

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David Trahair, CPA, CA, is an author 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.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

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.

What Students Are Saying

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1,985 reviews
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    XIN ZHU Y.
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    It is very good course for accountant.

  • KA
    Karine A.
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    Great course

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    great course

  • JG
    John Philip G.
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    good course

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