Dr. Perry Moore is an award-winning speaker who uses engaging case studies and real-life examples to fulfill the two-hour ethics requirement. Tennessee State Board of Accountancy rules require all active license holders to earn two hours of Board-approved state specific ethics during each CPE reporting period. The Board has partnered with the Tennessee Society of CPAs to help ensure that the most current and accurate state specific ethics content is included. CCH CPELink has licensed this material from the TSCPA.
Publication Date: May 2023
Designed For
All Tennessee CPAs with an active license
Topics Covered
- Overview
- Importance of ethics
- License requirements
- Continuing Professional Education
- Unlicensed activity
- Peer review
- Code of Professional Conduct
- Complaint process
Learning Objectives
- Identify the importance of ethics
- Identify the day Tennessee firm permits expire annually
- Identify in what Title the current accountancy law can be found in the Tennessee Code
- Identify how many technical hours a Tennessee CPA is required to obtain during a two-year cycle
- Identify the minimum number of state specific ethics a Tennessee CPA is required to obtain over a two-year cycle
- Identify the first step in the ethics conceptual framework
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Regulatory Ethics (2 hours)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
Instructor
Perry Glenn Moore
Dr. Perry Moore is the Charles E. Frasier Chair of Accountancy, Director of the MAcc Program, and Director of Assessment at Lipscomb University’s Pfeffer Graduate School of Business. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Internal Auditor, and is Certified in Risk Management Assurance. A Nashville native, Perry graduated from Lipscomb with a degree in accounting and then completed his graduate studies at the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia.
For the Tennessee Society of CPA’s, Perry is a member of their Scholarship Committee. Perry has also directed their “Accounting Academy”, a program designed to attract high school students to accounting careers.
Perry is active in the Institute of Internal Auditors. He has served as a Past-President of their Nashville Chapter. Perry is also a Past-President of Delta Mu Delta, an international honor society for business majors, where he currently serves as Treasurer.
Perry provides training for CPAs across the state of Tennessee on Professional Ethics. In 2023, the Tennessee Society of CPAs named Perry as a TSCPApex Award recipient in honor of his exemplary efforts and achievements in advancing the accounting profession through his leadership on the Tennessee State Specific Ethics CPE Program.
Perry serves as a member of the CPE Standards Working Group for the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). In 2015, the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs honored Perry with their International Teaching Excellence Award. In 2022, the AICPA honored Perry with the Mark Chain/FSA Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award. He has also received teaching awards from the Tennessee Society of CPAs, Lipscomb University, and the University of Georgia.