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Managing Through Corporate Politics - The Achilles’ Heel of Executing Professional Skepticism

Wednesday, Oct. 28   4:00pm - 5:43pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price $85.00

Non-Member Price $115.00

Overview

Professionals often require the ability to utilize professional skepticism, due care and independence when executing their corporate role. Corporate politics can be a combating factor when attempting to comply with those requirements. Leaders must be vigilant about nipping “political” problems in the bud, before they spiral out of control and/or impede those whose job it is to see through political agendas.

 

Dealing with corporate politics can be one of the most frustrating and confusing experiences for any professional. Unfortunately, selfishness, greed, bickering, lust for power, etc. can creep into your company's culture and impede productivity.

 

Learning to understand and deal with corporate politics is a prerequisite to being able to maintain an effective career. This course discusses the basics of corporate politics and provides you with alternatives to managing and handling dilemmas that you may face.

 

This course focuses on the core concepts that impact corporate politics and discusses methods for better understanding when, how, and why the issues occur. This enables professionals to better execute their professional skepticism, due care and independence responsibilities.

Objectives

  • Explore the definition of corporate politics.
  • Recognize instances when corporate politics arise and identify methods to address corporate politics.
  • Identify the impact of corporate politics on an organization and its people.
  • Identify the types of corporate politics that exist and how to remedy them.
  • Explore the importance of the “metaphors” of corporate politics.
  • Identify how to dispel the myths of corporate politics.
  • Explore the types of “roles” and” players” in corporate politics.
  • Identify how to employ steps to overcome corporate politics

Highlights

  • Defining corporate politics
  • Impact of corporate politics
  • Types of corporate politics and remedies
  • Metaphors of corporate politics
  • Dispelling myths
  • The players

Designed For

CPAs in public practice and anyone in business, industry or government

Prerequisites

None

Preparation

None

Notice

Your webinar can be accessed via https://ctcpas.acpen.com/. If you do not have an ACPEN account, please sign up for an account using the email address you have on file with CTCPA.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Lynn Fountain, CGMA, CRMA, MB, AICPA

Lynn Fountain, CGMA, CRMA, MBA

Lynn Fountain has over 45 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 20 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing and risk management. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance. Lynn has held two Chief Audit Executive (CAE) positions for international companies. In one of her roles as CAE, she assisted in the investigation of a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme perpetrated by a vendor that spanned 7 years and implicated 20 employees. The fraud was formally investigation by the FBI and resulted in 5 indictments estimating a $13M fraud loss.Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CPA, CGMA, CRMA credentials.

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Non-Member Price $115.00

Member Price $85.00