Ethics: Current Challenges

by Anna Faherty

Part of a series on 2024-25 ethical updates. This short course focuses on recent developments within the world of accounting and finance and considers how each might pose a threat to your ethical and professional behaviour.

This course is not currently available

This module will enable you to

  • Describe the ethical concerns associated with using AI
  • Identify the challenges in ESG reporting
  • Consider how changing working patterns affect ethics

About the module

New technology, evolving ways of working and additional reporting responsibilities may all put the fundamental ethical principles under pressure.

This short course identifies some of the most challenging recent developments and considers how each might pose a threat to your professional behaviour. It examines the ethics around using AI technology, as well as audit, ESG and working practice issues.

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Contents

  • Current challenges
    • Looking ahead
    • AI and accounting
    • Ethical risks of AI
    • New auditing and reporting responsibilities
    • Tech troubles
    • Evolving working patterns

How it works

Author

Anna Faherty

Anna Faherty is an award-winning teacher and researcher who runs her own content development and training consultancy, Strategic Content. Anna is expert at communicating complex technical information to non-technical audiences. She uses the phrase, "Communicating Stuff. Really well." to describe what she does and organisations of all shapes and sizes endorse that by asking for her help. By working with a broad range of clients, Anna has acquired experience of many different sectors and many different aspects of many different sectors and learned how to adapt to different working cultures.

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