This course is a provocative discussion of ethical issues in accounting, tax, and business, centered around your gut, which is more important than you might realize. The presenter shares personal and other experiences with ethically challenging situations and their resolutions, involving gut feelings. Past attendees have found it different from other courses, which typically do not discuss the role of gut feelings in ethical decision-making.

AGENDA

• Consider the role of your gut versus analysis in ethical decision-making.
• The risks of ignoring your gut. What is your ethics gut, and where does it come from? Is it an ethics issue or a professional disagreement?
• Being prepared to be fired for taking a stand.
• Testifying against a former employer in court.
• Ethics in the job interview: Is the candidate strong on ethics?
• Ethics pressure and coercion by incentives.
• Ethics and travel expenses. 
• Alternative consequences for fraudsters.
• Learning from ethics history. You will succeed in the end!

Past feedback includes:

• I haven’t taken a lot of courses like this - paying attention to that gut feeling is so important and so often ignored. People need to pay more attention to that feeling.
• I enjoyed the course! I like the title, because my gut rarely has failed me. I think examples is the best way to talk through ethical situations.
• Your delivery is great and full of energy You were funny and entertaining. Lots of good stories to make you think.
• The course also highlighted other possible approaches to ethics issues when there is also a practical human side.
• I liked the unrelated stories/jokes. I also liked that you gave people some tools for working through ethical issues.
• Your stories are interesting, keeps the topic real instead of just theory.