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Ethics for everyone
Ironically, by most people’s standards, I’m totally dope”, I have called it a Declaration
still young – I haven’t even had my first of Professional Ethics. Think of it as an
proctologist appointment yet – but the exposure draft for a short, sharp SAICA
genuinely eternal youth of students already pronouncement on ethics, in everyday
makes me feel old and – worse! – out of language, with some minor swear words
touch. For me, “the Hoff” is still Michael for added effect. To make sure that it gets
Knight, “Twitter” is a sound made by more attention than the CPC (for example,
birds, and “c u l8r” is an indication that the every CA(SA) reads it just once), perhaps
cellphone network is malfunctioning. we can get it set to music and, on the night
EThICS IS ABOuT ThREE VERy PERSONAl,
ExCITING ANd fuNdAMENTAl quESTIONS –
WhO WE ARE, hOW WE RElATE TO OThERS,
ANd WhAT WE ChOOSE TO STRIVE fOR
But nothing makes me feel so out of that FQE results are released, it can be
34 touch as when I give the Accounting sung in chorus by everyone that passes.
Ethics lecture on the Code of Professional On second thoughts, maybe people can
Conduct (CPC). I mean, these are people just join the Facebook group.
who manage to share their whole lives
in tweets of 140 characters or less, and Declaration of professional ethics
I’m expecting them to become intimately All CAs(SA) have studied for ages, and
familiar with a document of 76 pages! passed the FQE, which is bloody hard, so we
know that they have the skill-set to do loads
Now, perhaps you are thinking that
of complicated things in the accounting /
accounting students have to be able to
tax/auditing space. Awesome! The thing is,
read long documents – after all, GAAP
skills are only half the deal. CAs(SA) have
standards aren’t exactly renowned for
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jobs that involve other people trusting them.
their brevity – but ethics is different from, Sometimes, hugely. You could even say that
say, accounting for the Effects of Changes the whole f