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Ethical Decision-Making for Auditors

Course Category Audit

December 11 - 13, 2025

10:00 p.m.

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On-Site

This course will be delivered on-site in US Virgin Islands.

Registration for this course is invitation-only. Please email us for additional details.

Course Description

Are you faced with tough decisions about how to handle sensitive situations in your mission? Explore the ethical hazards and dilemmas facing officials and review methods of analyzing and resolving them in this participative workshop. Come away with a skill-set for dealing with the common, right vs. wrong hazards (temptations) and the more difficult right vs. right conflicts or dilemmas that auditors face. Also, learn ways to mitigate the risks, fortify the courage associated with carrying out ethical decisions, and review how to integrate effective ethics control systems into an organization.

What You Will Learn

After the successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Anticipate and recognize ethical dilemmas as well as distinguish right vs. wrong temptations from the right vs. right ethical hazards and dilemmas that officials face in their work
Select, describe, and use the appropriate ethical decision-making process from a survey of widely accepted models
Describe the causes of unethical behavior and methods of discouraging that behavior
Mitigate the internal and external inhibitors to carrying out decisions when there are potential risks involved
Help establish an ethics control system in an organizatio

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for decision makers, such as audit and finance and financial management officers and action officials in the US Virgin Islands.

Tuition Fees

With funding support from the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs, courses are available free of charge for government accountability professionals within the insular areas. The course fee is waived and there is no cost to register and attend, Professionals who do not meet the above criteria, please contact [email protected].

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December 11 - 13, 2025

10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

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CPEs - 8 Credit Hours

On-Site, US Virgin Islands

Windward Passage Hotel, US Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands

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Instructor

Drummond Kahn

Portland, Oregon

Drummond Kahn serves on the faculty of the Graduate School USA, training auditors and financial managers in the U.S. and overseas. Since 1990, Mr. Kahn served in federal, state, and local government auditing positions.

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