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2025 Nonprofit Series: Why People Make Unethical Decisions - A Deep Dive into Biases, Pressures and Situational Factors

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025
9-10:40 a.m. Central
2 CPE (2 non-technical) | 2 Ethics

Course code: 25WM-P004
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Leaders are inevitably faced with ethical quandaries -- especially in today's globally connected world. Effective leaders need to know how to navigate ethical challenges successfully. This seminar explores the biases, pressures and situational factors that affect many in their daily ethical decision making.

Major subjects

The behavioral ethics concepts and situational factors on how fraud occurs in organizations
Discuss a school district fraud scenario
Examine examples of when financial professionals committed fraud or unethical acts
Review a case study about Tyco's CEO
Learn the "4 Steps to Acting Ethically"
Discuss a nonprofit case called "Full Disclosure: Manipulating Donors"

Learning objectives

Explore the professional codes of conduct that should be followed, and what to do when ethical judgments fall outside of these codes of conduct
Be familiar with various concepts of behavioral ethics and the impact on ethical decision making
Through case studies and other interactive discussions, discover recent and past ethical scandals that directly attributed to various biases, pressures, and situational factors
Understand the "4 Steps to Acting Ethically"

Who should take this program?

CPAs and accounting professionals working in nonprofits or who have nonprofit organizations as clients, financial officers or board members of nonprofits

Pricing

Early Bird Member Fee (through 10/1/2025)	$99.00
Early Bird Nonmember Fee (through 10/1/2025)	$129.00
Standard Member Fee	$149.00
Standard Nonmember Fee	$179.00

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