University of Leeds - Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance

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Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance
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Overview

Learn why big data and tax avoidance are some of the biggest ethical issues facing businesses today and how they can be addressed.

Duration	2 weeks
Total fee	₹4,450
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Beginner
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Credential	Certificate

Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance
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Highlights

Earn a certificate from University of Leeds

Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Business Analysis Security Big Data

Who should do this course?

This course is designed for anyone interested in exploring two of the biggest business ethics problems.

The course will be useful for professionals working in small or larger organisations but also for anyone studying business or ethics at undergraduate or postgraduate level

What are the course deliverables?

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.

More about this course

Ethical behaviour brings significant benefits to businesses such as attracting employees, customers and investors. But failure to manage it properly can create huge challenges.
In this course, you'll discover big data and tax avoidance.
You'll examine the benefits and ethical challenges inherent to big data, including the issues of privacy and data security.
You'll learn what tax avoidance is and discover how globalization is increasing the likelihood of its occurrence.
You'll also hear from experts on key ethical arguments for and against tax avoidance as you work through prominent case studies.
Paid certification course

Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance
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Curriculum

Big data

Welcome

Big data and the law

Exploring the value of big data

Identifying the ethical challenges raised by big data use

Summary

Tax avoidance

About Week 2

Exploring tax avoidance

Can task avoidance be justified?

Identifying the ethical problems of tax avoidance

Summary

Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance
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Faculty details

Jim Baxter

I am an ethicist, working primarily on commissioned research projects and professional training. My research interests include professional ethics and moral responsibility (PhD on MR and psychopaths).