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Who should teach ethics courses in business and accounting programs?
Mohammad J Abdolmohammadi,
Bentley College
ABSTRACT. A survey of accounting faculty, professionals and graduate students indicate that (a) at least one stand alone course should be taught in each of graduate and undergraduate accounting and business programs, and also integrated in all other courses, (b) Ethics education should not be limited to the coverage of the AICPA’s Code of Professional Conduct, should not be left to employers, or to changes to accounting standards and laws, (c) Ethical conduct is positively and significantly improved by ethics education, and (d) ethics courses should be taught collaboratively by both accounting and philosophy faculty. These results provide support for NASBA’s recent proposal that more extensive ethics education by business schools and accounting programs are needed for the accountants entering the profession.
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