Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance (FutureLearn)

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Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance (FutureLearn)

Learn why big data and tax avoidance are some of the biggest ethical issues facing businesses today and how they can be addressed. Explore the ethical complexities of big data and tax avoidance. Ethical behaviour brings significant benefits to businesses such as attracting employees, customers and investors. But failure to manage it properly can create huge challenges. On this course, you’ll discover big data and tax avoidance.

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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 globalisation 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.

Syllabus

Week 1: Big data
Week 2: Tax avoidance

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • 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.
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