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Good Thinking: Ethical Accounting Leadership and the Science of Decision Making

GOOD THINKING: ETHICAL ACCOUNTING LEADERSHIP AND THE SCIENCE OF DECISION MAKING

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This Ethics webinar does NOT qualify for IRS CE credit.
Cost $25.00
Presentation Length 2.0 hours

Recorded DateJanuary 8, 2024
CPE:Not available
(archived webinars do not offer CPE credits)
Subject AreaEthics (Behavioral)
Course LevelBasic
Series: Ethics
Course Description

The ability to exercise practical judgment and strong objectivity consistently are challenging, even for the most seasoned professionals. Yet, these skills are central to effective, ethical decision-making. Fortunately, over the past several years, researchers in economics and psychology have applied a scientific approach to studying effective, ethical decision-making. From that research, we now understand clear and straightforward steps to decision-making and how almost everyone tends to fall prey to a set of predictable, systematic judgment traps and biases. Through an awareness of these common judgment pitfalls and an understanding of effective decision processes based on cognitive psychology, research suggests that people can dramatically improve their judgment and decision making and maintain a sharper focus on ethics and objectivity in their decisions.

Learning Objectives: 


  • Identify the skills necessary for effective, ethical decision making

  • Recall the scientific approach to understand explicit and straightforward steps to decision-making

  • Determine how to improve your decision-making dramatically

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Doug earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and is the LeRay McAllister/Deloitte Professor of Accountancy at Brigham Young University. His research and teaching in BYU’s graduate accounting and MBA programs focus on auditing and professional judgment. Doug’s research has been published in premier academic journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and others. He has also published award-winning articles in the Journal of Accountancy, Internal Auditor, and CPA Journal and has co-authored two leading auditing textbooks. Doug has won several research, teaching, and "best research paper" awards, as well as BYU’s 2006 Award for Distinction in Graduate Education, the Auditing Section’s 2014 Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award, the 2013 AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award recognizing the publication over five years most likely to impact the public accounting profession positively, the 2016 BYU Marriott School Outstanding Faculty Award, and the 2016 AAA Outstanding Accounting Educator Award. Doug has chaired BYU’s equivalent of a faculty senate and BYU’s university-level promotion and tenure committee. He is active in the profession, having served a three-year term as a member of the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board. He currently serves as a COSO’s Executive Board member, which just released a substantive revision of its landmark 2004 Enterprise Risk Management—Integrated Framework. Doug has served as an expert witness in high-profile auditing litigation cases. He has consulted with various large and small professional services firms on issues ranging from materiality and audit sampling to analytical procedures and professional judgment.

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Bill earned his Ph.D. and master’s degrees at Cornell University and is the Warnick Deloitte Touche Fellow and a professor of accountancy at Brigham Young University, one of the top-ranked accounting programs in the world. Bill is an internationally renowned researcher on the judgment and decision-making of accounting and business professionals. He has presented his research as an invited speaker at universities and scientific conferences worldwide and has won several research awards. Bill has also taught at Cornell University and Emory University, and in BYU’s Executive MBA program, and has received multiple teaching awards. Bill is a Certified Management Accountant specializing in performance measurement, the assignment of decision rights, and incentive compensation. His work has been published in top research journals, including Accounting Horizons, Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Strategic Finance, and he is a co-author on two popular accounting textbooks. Bill currently serves on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Management Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations, and Society, and as a director of the Institute of Management Accountants Research Foundation.

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