An In-Depth Discussion on the Ethical Dilemmas Accountants Face When Using AI Tools and How to Handle These Dilemmas

In this video podcast, Steven Pitucci, a practicing CPA from Toronto, Canada, speaks one-to-one with Arun Mathur on the ethical dilemmas facing accountants using common artificial intelligence tools, like ChatGPT®, in the course of their work and how we can best manage these dilemmas.

Topics discussed in this podcast include: 

  • An overview of the role and duty of CPAs to protect the public interest
  • Common ethical dilemmas that accountants generally face in practice
  • Examples of how accountants are using AI tools today and their perception of AI
  • Benefits that AI tools provide accountants today
  • Main ethical dilemmas with using AI tools as an accountant (with reference to the CPA fundamental principles of ethics)
  • Whether professional accountants should continue to use AI tools and why
  • Controls we can implement to mitigate the ethical dilemmas of AI


What you will learn?

  • Understand our ethical duties as CPAs
  • Understand the main ethical dilemmas that AI tools present to CPAs using this software
  • Understand various controls CPAs can implement, now and in the future, to mitigate these ethical dilemmas that AI brings

Instructors

Founder and Lead Instructor, UltimQuest Knowledge Inc.

Arun K. Mathur, FCPA, FCA, LPA

Arun is Partner at Gerald Duthie & Co. LLP, where he provides professional services to a diverse group of clients. Arun is also Owner and Lead Instructor at UltimQuest Knowledge Inc. He has been delivering corporate training on improving governance, ethics, internal control, performance measurement and related topics. He provides live and online training through CPA bodies across Canada and Bermuda. Arun served for several years on the Board for HealthForce Ontario Marketing and Recruitment Agency, and was also Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee there and for the Trillium Gift of Life Network. He has served on the CMA Ontario's Review Committee prior to the merger.

ACCOUNTING AND TAX EDUCATOR

Steven Pitucci, CPA, CA

Steven currently serves Canadian individuals and privately-held businesses by ensuring that they satisfy accounting and tax compliance requirements. He is also educating other accountants with all things accounting and tax. He has a passion for taking complex issues and teaching them to others in a manner that is understandable.