Ethics4Free
CalCPA members* are eligible to receive a FREE 4-hour ethics course ($229 value).
Ethics Course Information
Select from webinars or on-demand courses to meet your 4-hour ethics license renewal requirement or technical CPE hours. No promo code is required.
Membership Year 2025-26
Webinars and On-Demand
Accounting and Tax Ethics: Standards, Issues, & Case Studies
This course reviews the AICPA code of ethics for accounting and tax practitioners. Through Q&A and case studies, it encourages you to examine your firm’s policies and choices relative to those standards and common sense.
Credits: CPE 4, ET 4
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Ethical Responsibilities for CPAs: Ethics
Keep current on ethical requirements imposed by standards-setting organizations and legislative action. This course takes a pragmatic approach to ethics to help you recognize potential regulatory problems and avoid liability. We'll discuss regulatory, legal and ethical requirements affecting the profession.
Credits: CPE 4, ET 4
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Ethics in the Real World
An innovative and interactive session that taps the areas of neuroscience, psychology and biology to understand how science, emotion and ethical decision-making interact.
Credits: CPE 4, ET 4
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Everyday Ethics: Doing Well by Doing Good
Learn various codes of professional conduct and standards of ethical conduct, recent cases involving professional responsibility for the accounting profession, ethical frameworks and more.
Credits: CPE 4, ET 4
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Firm Ethics—A Practical Approach
In this course, you'll review what ethics means for a CPA firm and how to use the rules. The interactive workshop is designed for small and medium-sized CPA firm practitioners and includes generous time for questions and case studies.
Credits: CPE 4, ET 4
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Tax Practice Conduct Standards: Circular 230 and AICPA Statements
Meet the ethics requirement while addressing significant changes in the statutory and regulatory standards that govern tax practitioners. We'll explore rules that govern professional conduct in tax practice, including responsibilities to advise clients on tax positions and related penalty avoidance.
Credits: CPE 4, ET 4, CTEC-ET 4, IRS-ET 4
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What's So Funny 'Bout Accounting and Tax Ethics
This course will review the AICPA code of ethics for accounting and tax practitioners and encourage you to examine your firm’s policies and choices relative to those standards and common sense through thought-provoking and sometimes humorous Q&A and case studies.
Credits: CPE 4, ET 4
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The CPA's Guide To Ethical Leadership
Build a successful, resilient practice by mastering the key principles of ethical intelligence. You’ll discover how to hire and retain high-performing team members who embody honesty, accountability, care, and courage.
Credits: CPE 4, ET 4
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This offer is exclusively available to Executive, Professional +5, Professional <5, Temporarily Out of Work Force and Retired member types who have paid their CalCPA membership fees with “Current” member status and excludes Life Members and any membership with a “Suspended” member status. No promo code is required during registration.
Value is based on a full-pay, nonmember course price.
