A high degree of ethics is vital in the accounting profession as more and more scandals emerge that highlight the devastation unethical behavior plays in the financial well-being of businesses and ...

Companies rely on the financial reports prepared by their accountants to be true and accurate to make sound business decisions. Inaccurate financial reporting caused by the unethical or deceptive ...

The Institute of Management Accountants is commemorating Global Ethics Day by highlighting the work it’s been doing to improve ethics for accountants, while acknowledging that more needs to be done.

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants released a publication giving an overview of the sustainability-related decisions made by the board at its recent meeting and how those ...

Accounting ethics failures have seized headlines and cost investors billions of dollars. Improvement of the ethical reasoning and behavior of accountants has become a key concern for the accounting ...

This paper reviews the current commitment of accounting academics to teaching accounting ethics. In the course of the review it assesses the recent initiative of the American Accounting Association; ...

Beckley native J. Edward Ketz has published a new book about accounting ethics. “Recent financial reporting scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Tyco and countless other companies have rocked the ...

There comes a point in everyone's life when it's possible to choose to do the right or wrong thing. One day in 1987, Chuck Gallagher made the wrong choice, and 8 years later, he walked into a federal ...

The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) recently published OSC Staff Notice 52-724 Considerations for Public Accounting Firms in Developing Internal Ethics Policies and Procedures (the “Notice”).

A recent study by Accounting and Finance ranked the Department of Accounting, Business Ethics & Information Systems at Rutgers Business School (RBS) 15th in the world in research productivity. Among ...

KPMG will pay $1.3 million to the state of California for, among other things, obtaining confidential information and altering past work, following the accounting giant's admission to the Securities ...