Improving ethics education in accounting: Lessons from medicine and law

Issues in Accounting Education

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 671-690

  Liu, Chunhui ^a   Yao, Lee J ^b   Hu, Nan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b Department of Civil Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting ethics education; Collaboration between the academics and practitioners; Ethics; Ethics education methods; Legal ethics education; Medical ethics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865363127     PISSN: 07393172     EISSN: 15587983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/iace-50150     Document Type: Review

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