"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. 

Feedback and comments welcomed at podcast@aicpa-cima.com

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

While the show is paused for the holidays, here’s a sense of what’s to come from new presenter Kim Nilsen.

Purpose in Action is taking a holiday break and the show has big plans for 2023. We’ll start the year on Jan. 25 with the first in a series of episodes exploring the many aspects of ethics. To get more on ethics until we’re back, check out Episode 4’s look at building an ethical career, or Episode 6’s discussion of the role we all can play in detecting and preventing fraud. 

LINKS

• For more on the work of accountants in the public interest, visit our Purpose In Action page at AICPA.org.
• Connect with presenter Kim Nilsen via LinkedIn.

Feedback and comments welcomed at podcast@aicpa-cima.com

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

In a sense, everyone is an accountant, and therefore everyone is a fraud detective. 

We all have a role in preventing and detecting fraud, and it starts with treating compliance activities as more than just a check-the-box exercise. On this episode of the Purpose in Action podcast, global fraud detective Nigel Iyer, FCMA, CGMA, describes ways that everyone can contribute to the prevention and detection of fraud.

Iyer, a founder of the firm B4 Investigate in Oslo, Norway, explains:

• How to combat fraud in a passionate but also compassionate manner.
• Why everyone is an accountant, and by extension, everyone is a fraud detective.
• Technology’s role in the fight against fraud.
• How to stop fraud before it happens.

Connect with our guest, Nigel Iyer and take the B4 Investigate Fraud Detective Challenge, a 5-minute test of what kind of fraud detective you are.

Find out how accountants are protecting against money laundering amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  You can also learn how accounting professionals are working in cybersecurity roles to keep the public safe. For more on the work of accountants in the public interest, visit our Purpose In Action page at AICPA.org.

Feedback and comments welcomed at podcast@aicpa-cima.com

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