Ethics and accounting education

Issues in Accounting Education

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 399-418

  Thomas, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deliberative reasoning; Ethical decisions; Modes of deliberative reasoning; University accounting education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865350419     PISSN: 07393172     EISSN: 15587983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/iace-50119     Document Type: Article

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