Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider how ethics is currently taught to trainee auditors and to evaluate whether some ethical instruction techniques can be assessed as more effective than others. Design/methodology/approach – Two separate cohorts of auditing students (262)...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider how ethics is currently taught to trainee auditors and to evaluate whether some ethical instruction techniques can be assessed as more effective than others. Design/methodology/approach – Two separate cohorts of auditing students (262)...