Ethics 4 CPAs






Gil Blumenthal, CPA

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New for 2011
Fraud Update for CPAs

Fraud Update for CPAs

Fraud prevention and detection are "front page" topics for CPAs. Click here to discover Resources, and Articles to help you expand your awareness of what's happening in the realm of fraud.





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AICPA Tools and Aids

Find frequently asked questions, non-authoritative guidance and other resources related to Professional Ethics including:

  • The Plain English Guide to Independence
  • Guide for Complying with Rules 102-505
  • Network Firm Implementation Guidance
  • PCPS Independence Toolkit
  • Code of Professional Conduct - Archives
  • Other Regulators and Standard Setters
  • Ethics Products

AICPA Tools and Aids

Ethics Decision Tree

Interesting Study - Why Do CFOs Become Involved in Material Accounting Manipulations?

This new study finds suggest that CFOs are typically not the instigator of accounting manipulations. Instead, it appears that CEOs, especially powerful CEOs with high equity incentives, exert significant influence over CFOs' financial reporting decisions. In other words, CFOs' role as watchdog over financial reports is compromised by the pressure from CEOs.

Enron Whistleblower Would Go to WikiLeaks Now

Sherron Watkins, the former vice president at Enron who tried to blow the whistle on the accounting violations at the scandal-plagued Houston energy-trading giant, told an audience at a seminar Friday on the new whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act that she and other whistleblower employees would probably take their concerns to WikiLeaks rather than the Securities and Exchange Commission now.