When you read a headline online that says “Insanity: The Word ‘Man’ Is Banned at Princeton University,” do you immediately think “That goes too far!”? Or is your first reaction “Really? That sounds like an author writing a sensational headline to generate traffic to their article.” Our employers and clients count on us to be the “voice of reason” and to show a healthy amount of skepticism. Learn techniques for exhibiting professional skepticism, which is one of the key underlying competencies supporting our ability to meet our ethical requirements.
DESIGNED FOR
All professionals
BENEFITS
Gain a better understanding of common pitfalls that threaten decision-making, and discover some tools to better meet those ethical obligations under the Code.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Recognize the importance of professional skepticism as a key element of meeting professional ethical principles.
- Distinguish how professional skepticism is applied in the context of assurance and non-assurance roles.
- Recognize how quoted averages can deceive, and correctly interpret means and medians, factoring in variability.
- Identify common ways that samples, stated accuracies and unwarranted precision levels can be used to deceive us, and distinguish between correlation and causation.
- Identify how charts can be used to manipulate messages, and determine common methods of deception through qualitative messages.
- Establish ways to avoid making poor decisions based on misleading information.
- Identify common types of biases that negatively affect our decision-making.
- Recognize that biases exist as part of human nature and identify why this is the case.
- Distinguish between unconscious bias and racism.
- Determine effective ways to mitigate the negative impact of biases on decision-making.
COURSE LEVEL
All levels
PREREQUISITES
None
ADVANCE PREPARATION
None
ADDITIONAL NOTES
This is a mobile audio course, much like a podcast but you can earn CPE by taking an assessment.
By selecting purchase you will be taken to prodiolearning.com to complete registration.
Please contact support@prodiolearning.com if you experience any issues.
Due to the nature of our course content, once the course has been purchased, we are unable to provide refunds.
ProDio Audio Learning Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, Registry ID:142304. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org