Purpose – The paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of ethics courses provided to Malaysian accounting students and their impact on ethical judgement‐making ability. Design/methodology/approach – Third‐year accounting students from six Malaysian universities participated in a pre‐...

Ethics, of late, had aroused significant interest amongst practitioners and academics alike. The collapse of Enron, the largest energy‐trading company in the US had jolted the profession out of its complacency and serves a warning that all is not well with the profession. It is under scrutiny!...