The Institute of Management Accountants is commemorating Global Ethics Day by highlighting the work it’s been doing to improve ethics for accountants, while acknowledging that more needs to be done.

A high degree of ethics is vital in the accounting profession as more and more scandals emerge that highlight the devastation unethical behavior plays in the financial well-being of businesses and ...

Companies rely on the financial reports prepared by their accountants to be true and accurate to make sound business decisions. Inaccurate financial reporting caused by the unethical or deceptive ...

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants completed and approved an exposure draft on ethics and independence standards for sustainability reporting and assurance and a final ethics ...

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 ...

We generally assume that a person can be good at their job without also being a good human being. We can easily imagine an exceptional golfer, or mathematician or chef, who isn’t at the same time a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ACCOUNTANTS are under growing pressure from within their ranks to improve their ethical standards, after corporate collapses that have ...

Ethical behavior is difficult for any researcher to measure and analyze, especially in real-life situations. Results are often imprecise due to the challenges inherent in quantifying what is ethical ...

Now, why should this be important to you? According to the AICPA, achieving a score of 90% or higher is a required step in most states toward earning your CPA license. But there’s more to it than just ...

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 ...