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Accounting and business ethics [electronic resource] : an introduction / Ken McPhail and Diane Walters.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780203012628 (electronic bk.)
  • 0203012623 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Accounting and business ethics.DDC classification:
  • 174/.4 22
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Descriptive perspectives on accounting ethics : what factors influence the way accountants respond to ethical dilemmas? -- Normative perspectives on accounting ethics : how should accountants behave? -- Political moral philosophy and accounting ethics : why should accountants be good? -- Post and new-modern perspectives on accounting ethics : how have accountants become ethical? -- The function of accounting and the morality of the market -- The ethics of being a professional accountant -- The ethics of international accounting : harmonization and terrorism -- Ethics, intellectual capital and accounting reporting.
Summary: In the wake of the Enron scandal, the ethics of the accounting profession have come under real scrutiny. This concise textbook, aimed at students and practitioners, develops an understanding of the way accountants make ethical decisions in practice by exploring the factors that impact on the dilemmas they face.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Descriptive perspectives on accounting ethics : what factors influence the way accountants respond to ethical dilemmas? -- Normative perspectives on accounting ethics : how should accountants behave? -- Political moral philosophy and accounting ethics : why should accountants be good? -- Post and new-modern perspectives on accounting ethics : how have accountants become ethical? -- The function of accounting and the morality of the market -- The ethics of being a professional accountant -- The ethics of international accounting : harmonization and terrorism -- Ethics, intellectual capital and accounting reporting.

In the wake of the Enron scandal, the ethics of the accounting profession have come under real scrutiny. This concise textbook, aimed at students and practitioners, develops an understanding of the way accountants make ethical decisions in practice by exploring the factors that impact on the dilemmas they face.

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