Improving ethics education in accounting: Lessons from medicine and law

Author

Chunhui LIU
Lee J. YAO
Nan HU, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

8-2012

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to offer accounting educators additional perspectives for ethics education by considering teaching approaches from medicine and law. It takes the form of literature review and argument. The paper finds that ethics education in accounting shows deficiencies in terms of code-bound content, less systematic formal training, less informal hands-on training, and less usage of partnering in comparison to ethics education in medicine and law, thereby producing students with higher moral cognitive capabilities. Based on these findings, the authors provide some recommendations for improvement.

Keywords

Ethics, Accounting ethics education, Ethics education methods, Medical ethics education, Legal ethics education, Collaboration between the academics and practitioners

Discipline

Accounting | Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics | Higher Education

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Issues in Accounting Education

Volume

27

Issue

3

First Page

671

Last Page

690

ISSN

0739-3172

Identifier

10.2308/iace-50150

Publisher

American Accounting Association

Citation

LIU, Chunhui; YAO, Lee J.; and HU, Nan. Improving ethics education in accounting: Lessons from medicine and law. (2012). Issues in Accounting Education. 27, (3), 671-690.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8214

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https://doi.org/10.2308/iace-50150