Ethics education for accounting students-a toolkit approach

Accounting Education

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 405-430

  Cooper, Barry J ^a   Leung, Philomena ^a   Dellaportas, Steven ^a   Jackling, Beverley ^b   Wong, Grace ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounting education; Ethics education framework; Ethics interventions; IFAC; Teaching ethics; Toolkit

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959394568     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280802436681     Document Type: Article

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