The impact of ethical orientation and gender on final year undergraduate auditing students' ethical judgments

Accounting Education

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-201

  Ballantine, Joan A ^a   McCourt, Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethical judgment; Ethical orientation; Gender and auditing; Idealism; Relativism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959513740     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2011.557493     Document Type: Article

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