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16th Annual Workshop
Sponsored by the
Centre for Accounting Ethics
University of Waterloo

The Centre for Accounting Ethics is pleased to present Mary Gentile as its 2012 speaker at our annual Workshop on current issues in accounting ethics education.   

Mary Gentile is the author of Giving Voice to Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right as well as a Senior Research Scholar at Babson College; Senior Advisor to The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program; and an independent consultant.  Previously she was a faculty member and manager of case research at the Harvard Business School. 

Ms. Gentile is leading a revolutionary approach to values-driven leadership development that has been featured in Financial Times, Harvard Business Review (twice), strategy+business, Stanford Social Innovation Review, McKinsey Quarterly, BizEd, among many others, and is being piloted in over 175 business schools and organizations.  Her earlier publications include a co-authored book titled Can Ethics Be Taught? Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at Harvard Business School.

The winter 2012 edition of Accounting Education News featured Ms. Gentile’s concept of Giving Voice to Values (GVV)and how to incorporate it into the accounting curriculum.  The GVV concept promotes a systematic approach to teach strategies to address ethical challenges.  Success would be measured by a student’s reaction to these issues to be a natural and instinctive part of his/her response. This will only be the outcome through a proper teaching framework and repeated practice by the students.   

Schedule

8:00	Breakfast & Welcome
9:00	Estey Award Presentation
9:15	Mary Gentile – presentation
10:45	Break
11:00	Discussion with Mary Gentile
12:00	Conclusion

We invite all CAAA conference participants to start our workshop with a full breakfast. The workshop is free to conference attendees, but please register through the online conference form and indicate if you’d like to join us for breakfast.  
If you have any questions, please contact Linda A. Robinson L2Robins@uwaterloo.ca or Jenny Rothwell at jrothwell@uwaterloo.ca .

 

About last year's workshop...

The Centre for Accounting Ethics conducted the 15th annual Ethics Workshop on the Sunday of the Annual CAAA Conference in Toronto. Once again the event was highly successful. It was well attended and the feedback was positive.

This year we had two speakers, Alan Willis and Cathy Cobey, discussing Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility an important emerging topic of direct relevance to the classroom.  Alan Willis consults and researches on sustainability and is involved in national and international initiatives to set standards and issue guidance for companies reporting on social responsibility and sustainability.   Cathy Cobey is with Ernst & Young’s Climate Change and Sustainability practice that provides sustainability and environmental related assurance and advisory services.  In their presentation they discussed the current and proposed standards for management accounting and performance measures, financial accounting and reporting around corporate social responsibility.  They also discussed integrated reporting and the implications for assurance services. 

We thank Mr. Willis and Ms. Cobey for their useful presentation which touched on many areas of accounting that can be taken back to the classroom.

The Workshop honoured this year’s recipient of the Estey Award, Mr. Mike Dillman of Vancouver Island University and his sponsoring faculty member, Professor Chris Burnley.  Mr. Dillman presented a summary of his paper, “Teaching Ethics Under IFRS:  Developing Ethical Reasoning Skills in Accounting Students” at the Workshop. At the members’ lunch both Mr. Dillman and Mr. Luke Rutledge (and his sponsor, Professor Amy MacFarlane, University of Prince Edward Island), the winner of the Honourable Mention Award, were acknowledged.  Once more the Centre thanks the family of the late Mr. Justice Willard Z. Estey for their continued and generous support of this award. The Ethics Centre asks all members to continue to encourage their students to submit to this competition, which will be conducted again in 2012.

We thank the CAAA and Lesley Falkner in particular for her assistance. We also thank Jenny Rothwell for all her preparatory work.  This is a most important part of our Centre’s year.