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 ...

Ethical Responsibility in Accounting. Unlike other general business positions in a company, accountants are bound both by the rules of their organization and by the professional standards of the ...

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 completed and approved an exposure draft on ethics and independence standards for sustainability reporting and assurance and a final ethics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 first treatise on double-entry bookkeeping came from the mind and pen of Luca Pacioli. If you've ever wondered why there is a system of accounting software named after a Renaissance era ...

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 ...