A webinar designed to provide practical advice and actionable insights.
10:30 - 11:30
As a professional, an accountant has a responsibility to be both technically competent and ethical. Indeed, it might be said that an accountant should be ethically competent. However, if we look around us, that doesn’t always seem to be the case. Why is this so, and what can you do to be(come) an ethical accountant? To provide some answers, the session will cover the following questions, seeking to provide practical advice and actionable insights along the way:
Following a long career in higher education, Chris ‘retired’ to London in 2019 and took a part-time Associate Director role at the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE). He currently leads on the IBE’s research, training and advisory services.
He is also Emeritus Professor at the University of Huddersfield, a Visiting Professor at Leeds University’s Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre and at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain). He is a Chartered Governance Professional and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was a member of the Ethics Standards Committee of the ICAEW from 2009 to 2018.
Chris holds a BA (First Class Honours in Accounting and Financial Management) and PhD from Sheffield, an MA (by Special Resolution) from Oxford, an MScEcon from Wales and a Graduate Diploma in Philosophy from York.
He is the author of more than 70 journal papers, has edited three books and has written many book chapters and other pieces, for both academic and practitioner audiences. He was Editor of the international journal, Business Ethics: A European Review, for a decade