International tax expert to speak on ethics
Chas Roy-Chowdhury, Head of Tax at ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), will be examining why there is so much interest in ethics, six years after the Enron scandal when he speaks at a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) seminar in the Cayman Islands and Bahamas next month. Roy-Chowdhury, a leading tax expert will explore the ethical challenges which face accountants in their daily working lives and how this has an impact on the way they and their clients can reduce risk. He will also be outlining a framework for resolving ethical conflicts, and arguing that good ethics means good profits.
Chas Roy-Chowdhury said: “Ever since the corporate scandals of 2002, where accountants were put under huge pressure to hide the real figures, there has been a demand for ethical behaviour from finance professionals. ACCA is trying to help its members to resolve ethical dilemmas in a number of ways and provides a framework which enables them to make tough decisions more easily. This is because, all too often, ethical dilemmas are not between ‘right and wrong’, but between two ‘rights’, such as the need for economic development weighed against environmental protection.”
Roy-Chowdhury is also expected to facilitate a Taxation seminar in Trinidad later on in March.
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