Ethics for Virginia CPAs - 2026 VA-Approved Self-Study Webinar
Overview
Note: This course is designed specifically to satisfy the Virginia Board of Accountancy’s ethics education requirement and focuses on Virginia rules and expectations. Ethics courses approved for other states may not meet Virginia’s state-specific ethics requirement.
Ethical decision-making is central to the accounting profession, and Virginia CPAs must navigate professional responsibilities alongside evolving regulatory and compliance expectations. This self-study webinar provides a practical ethics CPE program for Virginia CPAs, grounding participants in ethical principles, professional judgment, and the standards that support high-quality practice. It satisfies applicable Virginia ethics requirements and prepares CPAs to recognize ethical risks and respond appropriately in real-world situations. You'll learn how to:
- Strengthen ethical judgment in complex or high-pressure professional scenarios
- Apply ethical frameworks to everyday accounting and business decisions
- Understand how regulatory oversight influences ethical compliance and accountability
Objective
To help Virginia CPAs meet ethics education requirements while strengthening ethical judgment, professional responsibility, and compliance with applicable standards and state board expectations.
DETAILED LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Identify the various definitions of ethics
• Identify the likely consequences of ethical complacency
• Recognize the stages of moral development as theorized by Kohlberg
• Identify results from specified workplace ethics surveys
• Identify the profession’s strategies designed to minimize unethical behavior by licensed CPAs
• Recognize accounting issues most likely to lead to the potential for accounting abuses
• Recognize the Boards of Accountancys’ primary consideration when disciplining a licensee
Emphasis
- Ethics defined
- Moral development
- Kohlberg's Six Stages of Ethical Development
- Professional responsibility: issues for accountants
- Rules enforcement
- Causes of unethical behavior
- Independence, conflicts of interest and objectivity
- Triggers for state board disciplinary actions
- Forms of organization
- License mobility
- The future of ethics and compliance
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