Join Vaco by Highspring to strengthen your ethical judgment, meet your Texas ethics requirement, and elevate the CPA brand without pre-work or prerequisites. This interactive course connects real-world decisions to the Texas Rules of Professional Conduct and the values that define trusted professionals.
- Satisfy your ethics requirement efficiently: Earn 4.0 hours that satisfy TSBPA, ACFE, and IIA ethics requirements in a single session
- Learn from a nationally recognized expert: Real cases, practical frameworks, and clear takeaways you can use immediately
- Build better decisions under pressure: Practice applying ethical frameworks to everyday dilemmas
- Protect your license and your brand: Connect ethical choices to reputation, compliance, and stakeholder trust
- Network with peers: Engage with CPAs, internal auditors, fraud examiners, and compliance leaders across DFW
- Ethical philosophies and value-based decision frameworks
- Individual and organizational drivers of ethical behavior
- Texas State Board of Public Accountancy Rules of Professional Conduct
- Practical steps to uphold and strengthen the CPA brand
- Real-world scenarios that sharpen judgment and confidence
- Explore the role values play in an individual’s and an organization’s ethical decision making.
- Practice applying ethical judgment in making choices appropriate for the profession and the public
- Understand the Texas State Board’s Rules of Professional Conduct and the core values of our profession
- Determine improvement opportunities for protecting the brand
Deanna is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and trainer specializing in ethics, fraud, leadership, and communication. She is certified to teach ethics for Texas CPAs. Previously a partner in Arthur Andersen’s Risk Consulting practice, Deanna served as the Global Director of Process and Methodology, where she developed Andersen’s Quality Assurance Review Methodology and Global Best Practices for Internal Audit. Earlier in her career, she led international and operational auditing at Enron and Diamond Shamrock. She is a Ziglar Legacy Certified Trainer, a certified DISC Behavioral Analyst, and a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Member
Whether you need credit or not, this session will be valuable for Texas CPAs and CPA candidates, Internal auditors and audit leaders, Fraud examiners and compliance professionals, Controllers, finance leaders, and advisors seeking an approved ethics course. If you do need credit, see below.Â
Partial credit is not available. To receive the full 4 CPE credit hours, participants must sign into the event for attendance verification and attend both live sessions (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM and 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM).
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Prerequisites: N/A | Advanced Preparation: None | Knowledge Level: Basic | CPE Field of Study: Behavioral Ethics | Event Location:Â Gleneagles Country Club, Dallas, TXÂ | Delivery Method: Group Live | Refund Policy: N/A
Highspring is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org
WAIVER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
As part of this event, we will provide certain food and drink for your enjoyment. This may include alcoholic beverages. For those who choose to consume alcohol, we trust and expect that you will act responsibly and professionally; you will not consume alcohol in excess, and under no circumstances will you operate a motor vehicle while impaired.
Registering confirms your understanding of this agreement to release Highspring and any related entities and/or affiliates, and any of their respective officers, directors, employees, shareholders, members, and agents, from any liability, damages, or other expenses whatsoever that may arise out of, or that may be related in any way to, your consumption of alcohol at this event along with your acknowledgement of the full version of our event waiver, available here.
Similarly, registering for the event also provides the company with your approval to use any photos of you taken at this event in subsequent promotional materials; a full version of our publicity waiver is available here.
