Devoted to publishing high-quality research and cases focusing on professional responsibilities of accountants, this volume explores topics such as whistleblowing, sustainability reporting, and ethical tax standards.

1. Making Crime Pay: Timing of External Whistleblowing; Andrea M. Scheetz and Joseph Wall 2. Factors that Affect CPA's Personal Applications of Ethical Tax Standards to Ambiguous Positions; Laura Clifford, Amanda M. Grossman, Leigh R. Johnson, and Wayne A. Tervo 3. Sustainability Reporting in...

This edition of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting includes articles from a distinguished group of authors. The topics cover many aspects of professional responsibility and ethics in accounting, including whistleblowing, professional skepticism, earnings management,...

This edition of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting includes articles from a distinguished group of authors. The topics covered explore many aspects of professional responsibility and ethics in accounting, including Giving Voice to Values, Whistleblowing, Earnings...

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editorial Board -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1-Understanding Professional Skepticism Through an Ethics Lens: A Research Note -- Introduction -- Literature Review and Hypothesis Development -- Ethical...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the relationship between law and ethics in accounting. The primary arguments of the chapter are that law and ethics have between intertwined historically, that concepts of morality and ethics have permeated law and that laws are based on ethical and...

Investigates the negative effect on employee welfare caused by economic decisions taken by corporate managements which they attribute to the adoption of an accounting standard, focusing on the case of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, which ended health‐care benefits for on‐union employees as a...