Business and Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives and Accountants

Book Description
Business and Professional Ethics for Accountants points students in the right direction! This text focuses on practical development of the skills needed to deal with ethical issues specific to accounting. Interesting, real-world situations provide students with an understanding of appropriate values, ethical pitfalls, applicable codes of conduct, and sound ethical reasons where codes do not apply.

Book Info
Text focuses on practical development of the skills needed to deal with ethical issues specific to accounting. Updated to include new cases, coverage of governance and accountability reform in business, professional accounting reform, and more. Previous edition: c2000. Softcover.

About the Author
Leonard J. Brooks is Professor of Business Ethics & Accounting at the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto. He is the Executive Director of the Rotman School's Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness, Director of its Master of Management & Professional Accounting Program, and Director of its Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting Program. Professor Brooks is the Founding Editor of the Corporate Ethics Monitor, a pioneering bi-monthly publication, and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Business Ethics. He has published articles on accounting and ethics issues, and has authored or co-edited books and a research monograph on business and professional ethics, corporate social performance, and developing and maintaining an ethical corporate culture. He received the 2000 Ethics in Action Award - Ongoing Social Responsibility - Individual in recognition of his leadership in the field of corporate social responsibility. Prof. Brooks is a member of the American Accounting Association, Canadian Academic Accounting Association, Academy of Management, Society for Business Ethics, and International Association for Business & Society.


Buy from Amazon     Compare Prices

A college level text, written by a professor of business ethics and accounting at the University of Toronto, organized into three parts: basic issue awareness, ethical governance and decision making, and practical issues encountered in the field. Each part includes discussion questions, cases, and classic and contemporary readings. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


Buy from Barnes & Noble     Compare Prices