GoFast.Finance/CMA Part 2F: Professional Ethics

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CMA Part 2F: Professional Ethics

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  • 11 Lessons

Use CMA ethics concepts to handle real pressure in planning, performance and reporting without burning your career or integrity.

⚖️ Ethics toolkit: Apply a simple decision framework when you face pressure around budgets, forecasts or reporting.

🗨️ Safer dialogue: Hold ethical conversations with managers and peers without unnecessary escalation or passivity.

🌱 Trust and culture: Contribute to a culture where planning and performance numbers are credible and sustainable.

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Who this is for

Controllers and analysts facing pressure around budgets, forecasts or reporting and needing a practical ethics decision framework.

Finance managers, leaders and CMA candidates responsible for setting expectations and culture around ethical finance behavior.

Prerequisites

Knowledge: Awareness of basic internal control and governance concepts plus experience in at least one planning or reporting cycle.

Tools: Access to the IMA Statement of Ethical Professional Practice and your organization’s code of conduct.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply an ethical decision framework to common planning and reporting dilemmas.

  2. Interpret and use the IMA Statement of Ethical Professional Practice in real scenarios.

  3. Recognize fraud risk factors and red flags in budgeting and reporting.

  4. Promote ethical culture, sustainability and data ethics within finance and the wider organization.

CPE Information

  • Eligibility: currently not eligible

  • Watch time: about 2.5 hours

  • Total learning: about 5 hours

  • Estimated credits: 3.0

Contents

Module 1: Ethics foundations and fraud lens

Lesson 1: Ethical decision frameworks for finance dilemmas
Lesson 2: Recognizing business fraud patterns in finance cycles

Module 2: Ethics for management accounting professionals

Lesson 3: Working with the IMA ethics statement
Lesson 4: Using the fraud triangle in analysis
Lesson 5: Evaluating and resolving ethical issues

Module 3: Ethics at the organizational level

Lesson 6: Culture and organizational drivers of ethics
Lesson 7: Ethical leadership in planning and performance
Lesson 8: Legal compliance in planning and reporting
Lesson 9: Personal responsibility and speaking up
Lesson 10: Sustainability and social responsibility in decisions
Lesson 11: Data ethics for analytics and AI use