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Why Good CPAs and Firms do Bad Things

The session will begin with a discussion of the classic Stanley Milgram punishment experiments, seeking to understand how they help explain unethical behavior.

Created byDavid Schultz
BeginnerUpdated May 4, 2022
Why Good CPAs and Firms do Bad Things

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUnderstand how and why individuals do ethically bad things
  • check_circleAnalyze why organizations do bad things
  • check_circleExamine how unquestioned deference to superiors and authority may cause unethical behavior
  • check_circleDiscuss the concept of administrative evil
  • check_circleExplore moral diversity and how it addresses the problems of unethical behaviour

About This Course

Why do good people and organizations act unethically? Why do people who apparently know right from wrong nonetheless act unethically? The session will begin with a discussion of the classic Stanley Milgram punishment experiments, seeking to understand how they help explain unethical behavior. The class then uses examples to provide a foundation for analysis regarding the relationship between work ethics and personal ethics, while seeking to understand whether you could be the next person to act unethically.

Field of Study: Behavioral Ethics

Course Content

2 activities • 1 videos • duration: 1h 8m

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Why Good CPAs and Firms do Bad Things-Part11 videos • 1 quiz • 1.1 hours
  • videocamWhy Good CPAs and Firms do Bad Things
    Duration 68:49
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Final Exam-Part11 quiz

Your Instructor

David Schultz

Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law

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David Schultz is Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Environmental Studies, and Legal Studies at Hamline University. He is also a professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. David has a B.A. and M.A. in political science and philosophy, a J.D. and LLM in law, and a Ph.D. in political science. Professor Schultz has more than 30 years of teaching, including 15 years in a business school. David has taught ethics classes for CPAs, accountants, and other business professionals for more nearly 25 years and his clients include many Fortune 500 companies. A three-time Fulbright scholar who has taught extensively in Europe and Asia, and the winner of the Leslie A. Whittington national award for excellence in public affairs teaching, David is the author of more than 40 books and 200+ articles, including extensive research on ethics, the media, and communications strategies, and he is regularly interviewed and quoted in the local, national, and international media on these subjects including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Economist, and National Public Radio.

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

4.6 out of 5
Student's Choice
326 reviews
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    Glenn M.
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    Interesting course content with good presenter

  • DB
    Danielle B.
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    Well presented with relevant examples

  • JW
    Jada W.
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    I'll never again gripe about taking an ethics course. Thank you for opening my eyes.

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    Kevin O.
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    The instructor kept me engaged throughout the whole presentation - very well done

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