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Unethical business practices harm organizations and economies. Large-scale business failures such as Enron—as well as the more recent failures related to the global financial crisis—highlight the consequences of unethical business practices and amoral management. Professional accountants, as stewards of transparency and trust, and subject to a professional code of ethics, have a key role to play not only in upholding but in encouraging and influencing ethical behavior and decision making within their organizations. See the full overview.

 

New—and Important—Role for Professional Accountants in Assessing Human Rights Risk

by Tanya Barman, Associate Director, Ethics, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants | July 21, 2016

The intersection of human rights and business is an important emerging area that no business can afford to ignore, and assessing and addressing potential risk is clearly also a role for the professional accountant .

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    by Albert Au, IFAC SMP Committee Member and Ethics Task Force Chair, and Christopher Arnold, Technical Manager, SME & SMP Affairs, IFAC | September 24, 2014

    The IFAC SMP Committee seeks feedback in developing our response to the IESBA’s Exposure Draft, Proposed Changes to Certain Provisions of the Code Addressing the Long Association of Personnel with an Audit or Assurance Client, which is open for...

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    Over time professional accountants in business, hired for their professionalism and independent judgment, may identify with their organization more than their profession, which can be a problem.

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    With an almost universal recognition of the connection between ethical behavior and economic growth, it is time for corporate leaders—and professional accountants—to stop lagging behind and pay attention.

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