Accounting ethics failures have seized headlines and cost investors billions of dollars. Improvement of the ethical reasoning and behavior of accountants has become a key concern for the accounting ...

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is cautioning accountants about the risk of greenwashing when reporting on a company's environmental efforts. The ACCA released a report Wednesday in ...

New technology allows accountants to do far more for their clients, but with this increased capacity has come more ethical issues, especially with regard to objectivity, independence and competence.

The accounting profession holds a pivotal responsibility in championing sustainability and ethical practices within the business realm. Integrating these principles into the accounting curriculum ...

A public accounting firm's ethical environment has an important role in encouraging ethical behavior, but prior research has shown that firm leaders (e.g., partners) perceive the ethical environment ...

Ernst & Young, one of the top accounting firms in the world, is being fined $100 million by federal regulators after admitting its employees cheated on their ethics exams. For years, the firm's ...