Accounting Ethics Education: Teaching Virtues and Values gathers a
diversity of contributions from invited, well-known experts. It promotes
a comprehensive reflection around how ethics can and should be taught to
accounting students, discussing and highlighting the most updated
research on accounting ethics education, and it is an essential
reference in the field.
The subject of accounting ethics education is critical to foster ethical
awareness that may prevent the way in which one acts or behaves,
especially towards others. The point is that accounting education cannot
exist without ethical education and accountants must be technically
proficient and ethically sensible since ethical behavior is vital to the
status and credibility of the accountancy profession. And this
sensibility must be developed while the future professional is still
cultivating his or her moral and intellectual structure within the
school learning environment: character and practical reasoning are
crucial because they include not only knowledge of rules and principles,
and their correct application but also values and virtues.
Examining multiple perspectives, Accounting Ethics Education: Teaching
Virtues and Values advances the scholarly debate by providing
cuttingedge and insightful research vital for all those interested and
immersed in these matters. It begins with a historical perspective of
accounting ethics education and continues by exploring challenges,
opportunities and developments in the area. It will be of great value to
academics, students, researchers and professionals in the fields of
accounting, accounting education and ethics.
