Associations between the religious beliefs and ethical-reasoning abilities of future accounting professionals

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 673-678

  Ho, Yi Hui ^a  

^a CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accounting students; Ethical reasoning abilities; Religious beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949145406     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2009.37.5.673     Document Type: Article

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