Ethical leadership isn't a destination, it's an ongoing conversation. The CCAB Ethical Leadership Podcast brings together leading voices from across the accounting and finance profession to explore the complex ethical challenges facing today's business leaders.
Hosted by Tom Parker, each episode draws on the expertise of senior practitioners, academics, policymakers, and specialists to examine the real-world decisions that test our professional principles, from the rise of artificial intelligence and the risks of data misuse, to the human dimensions of organisational culture and the responsibilities that come with leadership.
Whether you're a practising accountant navigating the pressures of a rapidly changing profession, or a business leader trying to build a culture your people can trust, the CCAB Ethical Leadership Podcast offers the insight, perspective, and practical guidance to help you lead with integrity.
A podcast from the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies.
Client data does not belong to the firm. Student data does not belong to the university. So what happens when AI starts using that data in ways nobody agreed to? In the final episode of the series, AI hosts Alex and Sam look at data, consent and trust. A big global firm wants to train its own large language model on 'synthetic' data generated from years of confidential client information, and the technology team insists confidentiality is maintained. The IESBA Code says otherwise. Meanwhile, ...
9 Jul 2026
Black Box Blues - When Nobody Can Explain the Numbers
'The AI identified them as anomalous' is not an explanation. It is just saying the same thing again. In this episode, AI hosts Alex and Sam tackle the black box problem: what happens when AI produces findings that nobody in the room can explain. At a mid-sized audit firm, an impressive AI audit platform flags transactions as high risk, but the engagement team cannot tell the client why, junior auditors have stopped exercising their own scepticism, and the engagement letter never mentioned tha...
2 Jul 2026
Should You Trust a Bot With the Big Decisions?
A confession to start the series: your hosts are not human. Alex and Sam are AI voices, and this entire podcast was created using AI. Fitting, really, for a series about the ethics of artificial intelligence in the Chartered Accountancy profession. In this opening episode, Alex and Sam ask how much you should trust AI when the stakes are really high. First, a CFO under deadline pressure turns to a free AI tool to draft a three-year strategy, and discovers the night before the board meeting th...
18 Mar 2026
How will AI reshape culture?
In the second episode of the CCAB Ethical Leadership Podcast’s AI special, experts from across the accountancy profession discuss how AI could influence workplace culture, leadership, and professional development. AI has the potential to be both a positive and negative force on culture, and could impact multiple aspects of how we work together. Tom Parker brings in experts from across the accountancy profession to weigh up the pros and cons, and discuss how we can get the best from AI, while ...
15 Mar 2026
Can we use AI ethically?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the world of finance and accountancy. But as organisations explore its potential, an equally important question arises: can AI be used ethically? From data privacy issues to bias and hallucination, artificial intelligence poses a lot of difficult questions for accountants and business leaders. Is it even possible to use AI ethically? How do we mitigate the things we can’t control. Host Tom Parker is joined by several experts in ethics to discuss...
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