Booking Information
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Who should attend
This event was recorded in Ocotber 2024 and 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 the Head of Group Ethics for SSE Plc where she is responsible for promoting and embedding ethical business culture across the Group. In previous roles Fiona was Head of Compliance for the Plc, Head of Regulation in Ireland and has worked at the Irish Energy Regulator (CRU) where she focused on consumer affairs, consumer protection policy and safety matters. Fiona has also served as a non-executive director on the board of Leave No Trace, an Irish Charity which focuses on responsible behaviour in using the outdoors through its outdoor ethics programme.
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
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Note for Legacy CPA Members
Members who joined Chartered Accountants Ireland following1 September 2024, please continue to book on the CPA Portal here to ensure you receive your member discount.
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