GLOBAL: ETHICS GAINING MOMENTUM IN ACCOUNTING CLASSES
April 1st, 2009
By Emma Jackson
As the recession digs deeper and major accounting scandals bubble to the surface, business and accounting teaching and training programmes across the globe are scrambling to endow a sense of ethics in their students.
Ethics have been largely ignored in many prestigious business schools, says one accountings professor at Australia's Deakin University, Steven Dellaportas, who argues students aren't equipped to deal with ethical dilemmas. Critics have argued this lack of education has led to scandals like Bernard Madoff's US$65 billion Ponzi scheme ...
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