The Teaching of Ethics in Undergraduate Accounting Programmes: The Students' Perspective

Accounting Education

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 599-613

  Graham, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

employability; Ethics; teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871059786     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2012.725638     Document Type: Article

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