Format
This event will be delivered via Zoom on 16 October 2024 from 10:00 am to 11:00 am. The Zoom link will be emailed to participants the day before the course is due to take place.
Who should attend
This event is relevant to all members of Chartered Accountants Ireland and all stakeholders of the Accounting Profession with an interest in the role of accountants in empowering ethical decisions.
Course overview
This event is designed to explore the many ways accountants can empower ethical decisions in business. Expert speakers and panellists will discuss how we can use ethics to guide personal decisions, mitigate harmful outcomes, create a more respectful structure for debate, develop helpful public policy, build and deploy technologies responsibly, and address some of the world's most pressing challenges.
There will be a focus on key areas such as:
- Ethical implications of Artificial intelligence
- Professional Ethics and Sustainability Reporting and Assurance
- Ethics and taxation policy
- Building responsible business
- Increasing regulatory focus on business ethics
- Recent developments in the Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants
- Understanding the role of ethics in the profession, its increasing relevance for earning trust and ensuring accountants act in the public interest.
#EthicsEmpowered #GlobalEthicsDay
Key Learning outcomes
by the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Question how accountants empower ethical decisions and help build a better future.
- Describe examples of ethical behaviours that improve trust and prevent reputational damage.
- Reflect on measures that promote ethical behaviours and identify tools and techniques that assist in resolving ethical dilemmas.
- Explain some of the current challenges facing professional accountants and how ethics awareness can help address these.
- Describe how accountants empower ethical decisions, and the expectations of business decision-makers from the accounting profession on responding to emerging risks and opportunities.
Speaker Bio's
Fiona Hannon, Head of Group Ethics at SSE
plc
Fiona is currently the Head of Group Compliance for SSE Plc where she manages
a team to deliver a regulatory and legislative compliance audit programme and is
responsible for maintaining the SSE Do the Right Thing Guide – its internal
guide to ethics. In previous roles Fiona was Head of Regulation for SSE in
Ireland and held a position as the Irish Energy Regulator (CRU) for 9 years
focused on consumer affairs, protection and safety matters. She also previously
worked in An Post the Irish postal service and has had experience in industrial
relations, consumer protection, change management and policy development. Fiona
has also served as a non-executive director on the board of an Irish
Charity.
Dr Daniel Malan, Assistant Professor in business
ethics and Director of the Corporate Governance Lab at Trinity Business
School
Daniel Malan is the director of the Corporate Governance Lab at Trinity
Business School, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and the founder of
IntegrityIQ, an AI-driven integrity platform supported by Enterprise Ireland. He
was the co-chair of the Business 20 (B20) Task Force on Integrity and Compliance
(2022 and 2020), is a former member of the Global Future Council on Transparency
and Anti-Corruption of the World Economic Forum (2019 – 2022) and is the
regional partner for Africa and Ireland at the International Board Foundation in
St Gallen, Switzerland. He is a former associate director of KPMG Forensic
Accounting, where he was the regional service specialist for ethics and
integrity services in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Níall Fitzgerald, Head of Ethics and Governance
at Chartered Accountants Ireland
Níall Fitzgerald is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and is currently the Head of
Ethics and Governance for Chartered Accountants Ireland. Níall is a member of
several advisory committees for global accounting groups, including the
Chartered Accountants Worldwide Trust Steering Group, Global Accounting Alliance
Influence and Advocacy Committee, and Accountancy Europe Corporate Governance
Policy Group. Níall is a non-executive director on the board of an Irish charity
and an occupational pension scheme Trustee. He is co-founder of Chapter Zero
Ireland, which is part of the World Economic Forums Climate Governance
Initiative, a Judge in the Irish Good Governance Awards, and has authored
several expert procedure manuals, guides and articles on business ethics,
corporate governance, sustainability, audit, compliance and reporting.
Professor Patricia Barker FCA, adjunct Professor and Non-Executive
Director
Patricia (Pat), a Chartered Accountant and lecturer in Dublin City
University, has a PhD in Financial Reporting, a Masters in Philosophy and a
Diploma in Counselling. She was twice a member of Council of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants and chaired the Irish Accounting Standards Board for 25
years. She chaired the Institute’s Education Board. She currently
represents Ireland on the CCAB Ethics Committee in London. Pat has worked as a
human rights and election monitor in the West Bank, South Africa, Bosnia,
Kosovo, Belarus, Moldova, Montenegro, Malawi and Kazakhstan. Pat has served as a
non-executive director on the boards of several Irish State Bodies and Irish
Charities. She has published in the areas of technical accounting, business
ethics, corporate governance and women in the professions.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding this or any other CPD course or
requirements, please feel free to contact the team here or call us at (+353) 01 523 3930
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