For years accounting ethics has been viewed as an unimportant adjunct of academic and professional accounting. However, the economic scandals of the early twenty-first century have dramatically nullified this characterisation, with the ruination of investors in Enron, WorldCom, Waste Management, Aldelphia, Tyco and scores of other business concerns raising questions about the adequacy and relevance of academic research into accounting ethics, as well as the ethical nature of professional parties.
Presenting important papers that reassess these theories, research studies and...
For years accounting ethics has been viewed as an unimportant adjunct of academic and professional accounting. However, the economic scandals of th...