Presentation Date: Sunday August 2, 2009
  Presentation Time: 8:00 am-11:00 am

CPE Session 26

A Principles Based Approach To Teaching Accounting Ethics Using A Generic Problem-Solving Model

Presented By:

Carol Normand, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

Description: SESSION CANCELLED This workshop will introduce a pedagogical technique in which students are taught a generic problem-solving model in an ethics module of an accounting course. The problem-solving model is used as a framework so students can organize traditional ethics topics as principles (procedural knowledge) and then use those principles to develop defensible responses to professional ethical dilemmas. In this pedagogical approach, the various traditional ethics topics become tools that can be used in an organized fashion to analyze ethical accounting situations.

Field of Study: Behavioral Ethics
Program Level: Basic

Intended Audience: This workshop is intended for anyone currently teaching ethics or interested in teaching ethics in an accounting course.

Format/Structure: I will introduce the way in which I use a generic problem-solving model when I teach ethics and have the participants some of the in-class assignments I use. The session will be interactive.

Learning Objective: - understand the IDEAL problem-solving model - use the IDEAL model to structure an ethics module in an accounting course

Prerequisites: none

Advanced Preparation Required: none

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