(008) How to be ready for ethical dilemmas

"Simple steps make a big difference when it comes to living, and working, ethically."

Clare Levison, CPA, CGMA, is a member of the AICPA Professional Ethics Executive Committee and founder of Inspired Responsibility, a consulting company that delivers organizational education via positive messages and meaningful content. She joins host Kim Nilsen to share tips about ways to deal with ethical risks. 

TALKING POINTS 

The conversation touches on:

• The beauty of having a personal ethics statement.
• How to build an ethical work culture.
• Applying the AICPA Conceptual Framework, an approach designed for accountants that is part of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, to any ethical dilemma in life. From a high level – the framework contains four steps:
  
  1. Identifying threats – aka recognizing that you have a problem.
  2. Evaluating the threat.
  3. Identifying safeguards, which means answering what you are going to do about the threat.
  4. Evaluating how well the safeguard worked.

LINKS 

• Find out more about the AICPA Conceptual Framework.
• Clare is the founder of Inspired Responsibility
• For more on the work of accountants in the public interest, visit our Purpose In Action page at AICPA.org.

CONNECT

• Our guest Clare Levison can be reached on LinkedIn.
• The host for this episode is Kim Nilsen, Senior Director for Reputation and External Affairs at the North Carolina head office of AICPA & CIMA. 

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This is a podcast from AICPA & CIMA, together as the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants.