This course is a wide-ranging discussion of practical ethical issues that CPAs face.
This course is a wide-ranging discussion of practical ethical issues that CPAs face. It was created and is presented by a veteran ethics instructor with significant real-life ethics experience. The course works through a wide variety of situations and scenarios, to strengthen your ethical resolve, and approaches for dealing with dilemmas. Past attendees have found it different from other ethics courses, as it is more practical, engaging, humourous and it has some surprises….
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PAST FEEDBACK
• This was FUN and very informative.. Thank you Stephen!
• The course brings ethics to life with all the real life examples that are discussed, from small to large, at work and outside of work, from many different perspectives.
• The course overall is good as is and is a great ethical course to take for CPAs.
• Your jokes are the best! You can quote me on that!
• I enjoyed the course and it gave me food for thought because it did more than scratch the surface on ethics
• The examples are eye-opening
• Great course. I would suggest other controllers to take course from you,
• Ethics is a complex subject matter, but this course provides more clarity by using examples and suggestions, all in a framework that gives us the tools we can apply to ethical matters in all aspects of life
• I find you really easy to understand, not stuffy, not buzz wordy, but just right.
• Engaging real-life cases and a personable presenter make this a good choice to get your Ethics requirement PD points.
• I like the inclusion of junior staff issues - they need to be prepared before these issues happen
• I find subjects, such as ethics to be extremely dry normally, and having ADHD I have a hard time focusing on an unengaging course. I really enjoy your presenting techniques and find that you are able to keep my wondering mind engaged.
• Other ethics courses were never memorable in the way that yours is.
Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMA is the President and Founder of Practical PD, Courses for Accountants. Stephen is also the Vice-President, Finance & CFO of Fidus Analytics Inc. In addition, he is a Board member, co-owner and Corporate Secretary of the SureWx group of companies, a global aviation business, which he was the CFO for 12 years previously. An engaging and experienced instructor, Stephen Priddle weaves practical tips together with stories from his business experience and input from participants. Seasoning the mix with a dose of accounting humour, he serves up useful and dynamic courses which have been attended by over 36,000. When speaking, he is candid about errors he has made in his career and the lessons that can be learned from them. Someone said: “humans are hard-wired to learn from stories” – Stephen is in part a business/accounting storyteller, who draws out the lessons from the stories. Stephen’s teaching experience includes presenting courses for over 70 accounting bodies and organizations in Canada and abroad. He has been a Session Leader in the CPA Professional Education Program, and has taught at the University of Toronto and Carleton University. He has moderated in the legacy CA, CMA and CGA program. Stephen is a prolific author. His published business, accounting and finance cases are used by many organizations. Stephen has nearly 40 years of varied business experience. After working with KPMG for five years, he moved into industry, where he has worked for public and private companies. He has gained a wide range of experience in financial reporting, treasury management, merger & acquisition and other business matters. Through his courses, he interacts with hundreds of financial leaders a year and thus stays on the leading edge in terms of best practices and hot topics. Stephen obtained his CPA, CA and CMA designations following graduation from Carleton University with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree, accounting major.
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.
