Refocusing ethics education in accounting: An examination of accounting students' tendency to use their cognitive moral capability

Journal of Accounting Education

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 103-117

  Thorne, Linda ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive moral capability; Ethics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043241722     PISSN: 07485751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0748-5751(01)00014-8     Document Type: Article

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