Charge:

To acquaint accounting academics with ways and means of inculcating in students the centrality of professional and ethical behavior in their accounting careers, and to stimulate an interest among academics to include this dimension in their teaching.

To encourage and support accounting ethics education and scholarship in universities, and more broadly to set a tone for instilling a greater sense of professionalism and ethical conduct in the practice and teaching of accounting. Specifically:

1. Develop an annotated bibliography of the literature exemplifying professionalism and ethical conduct that could be considered by academics for use in sensitizing students to the value of principled behavior in all aspects of professional life.
2. Encourage the development of suitable forums for bringing to the attention to academics and students the centrality of professional and ethic conduct in an accounting career, including the desirability and practicability of incorporating appropriate teaching materials in an accounting curriculum.
3. Continue to offer the Symposium on Ethics Research in Accounting in conjunction with the AAA annual meeting.
4. Provide a progress report to the Executive Committee liaison person in time for inclusion in the agenda book for each Executive Committee meeting.

Chair:

Professor Stephen Zeff
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
Phone number: 713-348-6066
Fax number: 713-348-5251
e-mail address: sazeff@rice.edu

Members:

• Andrew Bailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champ
  jbaile@uiuc.edu
• Richrad Bernardi, Roger Wiiliams University
  rab@alpha.rwu.edu
• Thomas Dyckman, Cornell University
  trd2@cornell.edu
• Dawn Massey, Fairfield University
  dmassey@mail.fairfield.edu
• Linda Thorne, York University
  lthorne@schulich.yorku.ca
• John Thornton, Washington State University
  jthornt@tricity.wsu.edu

Proposed EC Liaison

• Sam Vitkoski, BDO Seidman
  svitkoski@bdo.com

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