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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance
This course explored why big data and tax avoidance are some of the biggest ethical issues facing businesses today and how they can be addressed.
2 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Jim Baxter
Professional Ethics Consultancy Team Leader
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the ethical complexities of business practices.
- Explain the limits of legal regulation in determining the ethical course of action within business.
- Debate the ethics of business practices around big data and tax avoidance.
- Critically evaluate your own opinions about the ethics of business.
Syllabus
- Explain what ‘big data’ is and give examples of its use.
- Identify situations in which their own personal data is being collected by commercial organisations.
- Outline the potential benefits for consumers that arise from the collection, storage and use of personal data by commercial organisations.
- Outline the potential ethical issues that arise from the collection, storage and use of personal data by commercial organisations.
- Explain the difference between tax avoidance, tax evasion and tax planning.
- Give examples of tax avoidance practices.
- Recognise the limits of moral relativism in ethical discourse.
- Outline the key arguments in defence of tax avoidance practices by commercial organisations.
- Outline the key arguments against tax avoidance practices by commercial organisations.
Issued on 28th December 2020
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