Consultant’s Code of Ethics

ARTICLE I

Consultants shall maintain high standards of diligence, creativity, productivity,

and shall:

1. Accept responsibility for their actions;

2. Be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates from available data;

3. Undertake consulting tasks and accept responsibility only if qualified by

training or experience after full disclosure to their clients of pertinent

qualifications;

4. Maintain their professional skills at the current state of the art and recognize

the importance of current events in their work;

5. Advance the integrity and prestige of the consulting profession by practicing

in a dignified manner and for adequate compensation.

ARTICLE II

Consultants shall:

1. Treat fairly all colleagues and co-workers, regardless of race, religion, sex,

age, or national origin;

2. Report, publish, and disseminate information freely to others, subject to

legal and proprietary restraints;

3. Encourage colleagues and co-workers to act in accordance with this Code

and support them when they do so;

4. Seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of work, and properly credit the

contribution of others;

5. Support and participate in the activities of their professional societies;

6. Assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development.

ARTICLE III

Consultants shall, in their relations with employers and clients:

1. Act as faithful agents or trustees for their clients in professional and

business matters, provided such actions conform with other parts of this

Code;

2. Keep information on the business affairs or technical processes of a client

in confidence while retained and later, until such information is properly

released, provided such actions conform with other parts of this Code;

3. Inform their clients, professional societies, or public clients or private

agencies of which they are members or to which they may make presentations,

of any circumstances that could lead to a conflict of interest.

4. Neither gives nor accepts, directly or indirectly, any gift, payment or service

of more than nominal value to or from those having business relationships

with their clients;

5. Assist and advise their clients in anticipating the possible consequences,

direct and indirect, immediate or remote, of the projects, work, or plans of

which they have knowledge.

ARTICLE IV

1. Consultants shall, in fulfilling their responsibilities to the community;

2. Protect the safety, health and welfare of the public and speak out against

abuses in these areas affecting the public interest;

3. Contribute professional advice, as appropriate, to civic charitable, or other

non-profit organizations;

4. Seek to extend public knowledge and appreciation of the consulting

profession and its achievements.

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