Accounting Ethics Education: Making Ethics Real

Accounting education should prepare future professionals to enter a principles-based, rules-oriented field of activity with technical knowledge of accounting standards and ethical awareness. Accounting Ethics Education: Making Ethics Real is an essential reference in the field, promoting comprehensive reflection on key trends and providing a moral map for identifying and acting on values in difficult situations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 198 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Accounting education plays a vital role in preparing future professionals for a principles-based, rules-oriented field of activity. It requires a deep understanding of technical knowledge of accounting standards, principles, rules, and decision procedures, as well as ethical awareness. Ethical awareness involves the capacity to discern moral issues and resolve ethical dilemmas.

Accounting education is best achieved through the adherence to the principles of the accounting profession by accountants. It also requires individuals and firms to follow the appropriate rules, act according to the codes of conduct adopted by their profession, exercise clear judgment whenever they address financial transactions, and consider/assess the state of a given business.

Accounting Ethics Education: Making Ethics Real is a comprehensive book that gathers a diverse range of contributions from invited well-known experts and other specialists. It promotes comprehensive reflection around key trends in accounting ethics education. The book discusses and highlights the most updated research on accounting ethics education, making it an essential and useful reference in the field.

In the performance of accounting tasks, accountants should be educated and supported in developing the skills and habits necessary to solve accounting problems, recognize moral issues, and resolve ethical dilemmas. This book provides a moral map for identifying and acting on values when difficult situations arise.

Examining multiple perspectives, the book enhances the scholarly debate by presenting cutting-edge and insightful research that is vital for all those interested and immersed in accounting, accounting education, and ethics. It will be of great value to academics, students, researchers, and professionals in these fields.

Weight: 330g
Dimension: 151 x 228 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032019994