Overview

Tax professionals and accountants play a crucial role as moral agents in society, actively promoting core values like honesty and accountability. The trustworthiness of tax returns, compilation of financial statements, and the effectiveness of audits are significantly impacted by the professionals' integrity, objectivity, and dedication invested in their work. It is essential for us, as professionals, to be driven by the right things and cultivate appropriate mindsets to excel in our responsibilities.

This two part series offers tax and accounting professionals an opportunity to engage with Thuli Madonsela and contemplate what it means to remain ethical and act as moral agents in society.

Prof Thuli Madonsela, former Public Protector, will lead the discussion during the first series. In the second part of the series Caryn will look at practical scenarios where professionals may be confronted with ethical dilemmas.

Webinar content

• What does it mean for a professional to be moral agents in society?
• Reflecting on the daily ethical challenges facing tax professionals and accountants.
• Role of professionals to advance fiscal citizenship and nation-building for the common good of all South Africans.
• The responsibility of role modelling ethical behaviour and decision-making to our staff, clients, and community.
• Review of practical examples of ethical challenges and dilemmas and how to reflect and document your judgements within the Code of Professional Conduct framework.

Competencies developed in this webinar series

• Ethics, values and attitudes: Personal, business and professional ethics.
• Citizenship, values and attitudes: Personal, corporate and professional citizenship.
• Lifelong learning, values and attitudes: An adaptive mind set and agility.
• Decision-making acumen: Analytical, critical, integrative thinking, problem solving, making judgements and decisions and professional scepticism.
• Relational acumen: Communication and leadership skills, People, relationship-building skills and teamwork, emotional intelligence.

Presenters

Prof Thuli Madonsela

Professor Thuli Madonsela is a professor of law and Chair of the Law Trust Research Chair in Social Justice at Stellenbosch University. The former Public Protector of South Africa helped draft the South African Constitution. She is the co-architect and drafter of several constitutionally mandated laws, including the Equality Act, Employment Equity Act and Promotion of Administrative Justice Act.

She has an extensive background in applied constitutional and administrative law principles mainly based on her years in public service and investigations into improper conduct in state affairs as Public Protector.

She currently teaches Constitutional Law, Social Justice Law, Administrative Law, and Constitutional Governance and Ethical Leadership. Professor Madonsela holds eight honorary law doctorates in addition to her normal law degrees.  

She has two children and has summited Mt Kilimanjaro twice under the #Trek4Mandela campaign and for the Social Justice M-Plan and regularly hikes for the #Action4Inclusion campaign, a quest to end student debt.

Caryn Maitland

Caryn is a qualified CA (SA and RA), who has lectured extensively at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (and other institutes) where she lectured Advanced Financial Accounting. Since then, Caryn has specialised in facilitating ethics conversations, keeping assurance practitioners up to date and unpacking legislation for the financial sector.

She has conducted independent workshops and seminars for professional accountants since 2006 on various topics and has consulted on several technical issues. Since January 2011, she has focused on her own business as technical freelance consultant and trainer to those working within the accounting profession. Caryn is a technical advisor to various SAICA Eastern Region Districts as well as serving on various SAICA committees, such as the SAICA Eastern Region Council.

Since 2018, Caryn has worked extensively with commerce and industry, assisting analysts, directors, and other users of financials to interpret, prepare, analyse and forecast based on the results of financial statements.

CPD

Attending this webinar and the successful completion of the online assessment will secure a certificate of completion for 5 hours of Tax CPD.

Event Investment

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• Regular price: R990.00 (both sessions)
• Special rate for SAIT members: R790.00 (both sessions)
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