Ethical Decision Making
We are all facing ethical dilemmas daily and making ethical decisions is easier said than done. It is necessary to perceive and eliminate unethical options and select the best ethical alternative in making consistent ethical decisions. This course will explore an ethical decision-making model that will assist and provide guidance when facing ethical dilemmas in the workplace.
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Course facilitator: Curtis Loehmer
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Guest facilitator: Marlize Radjoo CA(SA)
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Time Investment: 1 hour
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Module overview
This is a self-paced course created with the sole purpose of equipping you to follow a decision making process and face ethical dilemmas head-on.
Who should complete this online course:
- This course is ideal for SAICA trainee accountants and any working professional who require CPD points.
- Any individual working with a team or reporting to a team.
- Professionals who want a better understanding of ethical decision making
After completing this online course you will:
- Be aware of what can cause you to not be ethical;
- Understand tools that help you to remain ethical when faced with complex scenarios;
- Gain insight into the process to follow that guides your ethical decision-making.
This course is facilitated by
Curtis Loehmer
Director | Quarterback Facilitator | Leadership Coach
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Curtis is a specialist consultant on leadership and performance who is part of the team of directors at LeadStrong Business Consulting. Curtis believes in creating change, as change for the sake of change does not lead to improvement, but improvement is always the result of something that has changed. Curtis has consulted for several large corporations in a variety of fields such as strategy creation, execution, high performing teams, leadership and culture enhancement. He has also founded a non-profit platform, ‘The Mental Gains Network’ in which he interviews some of South Africa’s top athletes and coaches, asking them to share their key insights on peak performance and overall success with the interviews being freely accessible to the public and receiving over 100000+ views to date. Curtis is also currently completing his Masters of Philosophy in Leadership Coaching.
Course Lessons
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Live Event series for trainees
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- Operating within a remote/hybrid work environment internally and with clients.
- What is the change curve and how this relate to your new role as trainee accountant.
- Mastering time management within your new role as trainee accountant - use outlook calendar to your advantage!
- Your health is important – Understand the important of sleep, exercise and brain care.
Live Event series for trainees
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Developing effective communication skills:
- Understand the importance of effective communication in the workplace (written and verbal).
- Introduction to business writing for first year trainee accountants (including email etiquette).
- How to use Microsoft Outlook and draft professional business emails.
- How to use a translator if English is not your first language.
Live Event series for trainees
Outcomes
- Operating within a remote/hybrid work environment internally and with clients.
- What is the change curve and how this relate to your new role as trainee accountant.
- Mastering time management within your new role as trainee accountant-use outlook calendar to your advantage!
- Your health is important –Understand the importance of sleep, exercise and brain care.
Live Event series for trainees
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- What is Microsoft office 365?
- Introduction to excel and how you will be using excel as a first year trainee accountant.
- Important excel functions you will use daily.
- What is working papers and how does this work in excel?
Live Event series for trainees
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- Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
- How to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint.
- How to prepare reports, letters and communications in word in a professional manner.
- .Tips and tricks to be more efficient in Word and PowerPoint.
Live Event series for trainees
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Ethics masterclass dealing specifically with personal ethics:
- What are personal ethics?
- Why are personal ethics important for you?
- How do you make the right personal choices?
Live Event series for trainees
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Getting the most out of your CA2025 training contract experience:
- Understanding how the CA2025 training programme works.
- Developing the right attitude towards your training contract and the importance of regular reflection during the contract term.
- How assessment works and what to do to ensure that you get signed off at the end of the training contract as proficient.
Live Event series for trainees
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Introduction to auditing:
- Why are audits conducted?
- What happens when auditors get it wrong?
- How are audits conducted?
- Where do I fit in this process?
- What is expected of me during the first year?
Live Event series for trainees
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The financial statement assertions and audit evidence:
- Understanding the financial statement assertions and their relevance in performing audit procedures.
- Understanding the requirements for sufficient appropriate audit evidence to prove the assertions.
Live Event series for trainees
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Risk of material misstatement:
- Understanding what audit risk is, and the three components that affect it.
- Understanding the impact of Risk of Material Misstatement on the nature, timing and extent of substantive audit procedures.
Live Event series for trainees
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- In this master class trainees will touch on professional skills directly linked to developing their relational acumen and Winning with People.
- Communication skills, People skills, Relationship-building skills
Live Event series for trainees
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- In this master class trainees will touch on professional skills directly linked to developing their relational acumen and managing people.
- Leadership skills, Managing others, Teamwork
Live Event series for trainees
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Ethics masterclass dealing specifically with professional ethics:
- What are professional ethics?
- Why are professional ethics important for you?
- How do you make the right professional choices?
Live Event series for trainees
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- What is emotional intelligence?
- Understand and manage your emotions.
- Understand the emotions of others working with you.
- How to get your emotions to work for you,not against you.
Live Event series for trainees
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- Why is Cyber security important.
- What can go wrong?
- Email best practices with reference to cyber security.
- What to look out for, how to evaluate authenticity of emails etc.
- Like farming, phishing, click bait, malware.
Live Event series for trainees
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Ethics masterclass dealing specifically with business ethics:
- What are business ethics?
- Why is understanding business ethics important for you?
- How do you evaluate the right business choices?
Live Event series for trainees
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- Why a personal budget is important?
- How to prepare your budget and what tools are available.
- How to use excel for this.
- Top 3 tips in personal finance!
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What you will learn?
- Overcome your fear of speaking and be comfortable in any audience be it: selling, training or motivating
- Discover ways to project confidence and passion to build your speaking credibility
- Get speaker insights on body alignment, gestures, movement, vocal variety to align to your message
- Learn how to package your content into a relatable format that can be adapted to suit any audience
- Get coaching and feedback on your natural speaking style and what needs to change immediately
- Learn the adaptations needed to speak to 2, 20, 200 or 2000 people in a live or virtual setting
- Get comfortable with technology and learn advanced skills to engage on a virtual platform
- Practice your pitch within peer groups and get immediate feedback
- Speak more often, gain more respect and elevate your career to the next level
ca2025 tRAINING
EAT On-boarding process
- Demonstration on how to activate the profile on SAICA’s EAT
- Demonstration on how to upload and finalise the training plan which comprises of the Integrated Exposure Plan and Expected Levels of Proficiency (This is based on the assumption that the training plan template is completed correctly by the training office – additional assistance available on request. The additional time investment required where applicable)
- Demonstration on how to onboard trainees via TCMS onto the EAT
- Demonstration on how to allocate a trainee to a training contract and sending the official EAT invitation to the trainee.
- Demonstration on how to add users other than trainees to the platform and how to allocate roles
- Demonstration on how to monitor compliance on the platform.
ON-DEMAND COURSE
Outcomes
- Be aware of what can cause you to not be ethical;
- Understand tools that help you to remain ethical when faced with complex scenarios;
- Gain insight into the process to follow that guides your ethical decision-making.
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Key outcomes of this session:
- PC2 and PC4, and what constitutes acceptable evidence for these 2 PC values in particular.
- The SAICA requirements around acceptable evidence for both the PC Values and the other professional skills.
- The SAICA decision trees and how to make the right selections when using them.
- Understand the difference between basic and advanced complexity levels.
Outcomes
At the end of the session the attendee should be able to:
- Logon to LTS and understand the LTS environment.
- Trainee to create and update a Skills Review (SR = TSR + PSR)
- Reviewer to sign off a Skill Review (SR)
- Know the answers to some frequently asked questions (SRs)
- Know and can implement the necessary LTS user administration and user maintenance activities (Audience: all LTS users & Training office Administrator)
- Extract all the necessary LTS reports and use the correct functions to monitor timelines, open documents and compliance requirements on the system (Audience: Trainees, Managers, Training Office Administrator, Training Officer).
- How to transfer my historical information to LTS (Audience: Trainee & Assessor)
- ANA opening balances (rates & development needs) and capturing of core hours.
- Assessor review and sign off on LTS
Outcomes
At the end of the session the attendee should be able to:
- Logon to LTS and understand the LTS environment
- Create and Update a Skill Review (SR = TSR + PSR)
- Know the relevant PwC & ICAZ document timeline requirements and responsibilities of the role-player (trainees and reviewers)
- Create and finalise an ANA, the relevant process, and responsibilities of each role-player
- Understand when and why the need for development plans in the ANA.
- Understand the impact of skills / tasks signed off as COMPETENT by the assessor
- Know the relevant PwC & ICAZ ANA timeline requirements and responsibilities of the role-player (trainees, evaluators and assessors)
- How to effectively use your LTS reports to monitor your training programme
- Know when a trainee can be discharged from his/her training contract and LTS requirements regarding relevant evidence and documents.
- The process to transfer your monthly core hours to LTS and impact during the ANA discussion
Outcomes
At the end of the session each attendee should be able to:
First time logon to LTS
- Logon to LTS and understand the LTS environment
Skill Reviews
- Review and finalise a Skill Review (SR = TSR + PSR)
- Basic vs Advanced complexity levels
- Difference between the rating difference process and when to reverse an SR to the trainee
- Know the relevant PwC & ICAZ document timeline requirements and responsibilities of the different role-players (trainees and reviewers)
- Relevant reports to track progress
Assessment Needs Analysis (ANA)
- Prepare for the one-on-one discussion: the relevant process, and responsibilities of each role-player
- The one-on-one discussion and what needs to be finalised
- Understand when and why the need for development plans in the ANA
- Know the relevant PwC & ICAZ ANA timeline requirements and responsibilities of the role-player (trainees, evaluators and assessors)
- Understand the impact of skills / tasks signed off by the Assessor = COMPETENT
- How to measure a trainee’s progress on their training programme
- Relevant reports and checks if a trainee can be discharged from his/her ICAZ training program.
- ANA opening balances and core hours – how this will be transferred to LTS and relevance in the next ANA discussions.
Outcomes
At the end of the session each attendee should be able to:
First time logon to LTS
Skills Reviews
Reports and incomplete notifications
- Logon to LTS and understand the LTS environment
Skills Reviews
- Trainee to create and update a Skill Review (SR = TSR + PSR)
- Importance of PC- and Professional Skill evidence to be specific, positive and verifiable
- Reviewer to review and finalise a Skill Review
- Reviewer assign an overall rate and give an overall comment on trainee’s performance in the SR
- How to handle rating differences. Reviewer and trainee activities.
- What to do id PC- or professional skill evidence is not sufficient?
Reports and incomplete notifications
- Score Grid Reports: Summary of evaluation on competency framework
- Incomplete notifications (Automated & generated by administrator)