Accounting Ethics Education Teaching Virtues and Values Routledge Studies in Accounting Series

Accounting Ethics Education: Teaching Virtues and Values gathers a diversity of contributions from invited, well-known experts. It promotes a comprehensive reflection around how ethics can and should be taught to accounting students, discussing and highlighting the most updated research on accounting ethics education, and it is an essential reference in the field.

The subject of accounting ethics education is critical to foster ethical awareness that may prevent the way in which one acts or behaves, especially towards others. The point is that accounting education cannot exist without ethical education and accountants must be technically proficient and ethically sensible since ethical behavior is vital to the status and credibility of the accountancy profession. And this sensibility must be developed while the future professional is still cultivating his or her moral and intellectual structure within the school learning environment: character and practical reasoning are crucial because they include not only knowledge of rules and principles, and their correct application but also values and virtues.

Examining multiple perspectives, Accounting Ethics Education: Teaching Virtues and Values advances the scholarly debate by providing cuttingedge and insightful research vital for all those interested and immersed in these matters. It begins with a historical perspective of accounting ethics education and continues by exploring challenges, opportunities and developments in the area. It will be of great value to academics, students, researchers and professionals in the fields of accounting, accounting education and ethics.

Part 1. Accounting ethics education’s odyssey. 1. Accounting education and ethics in the 15th century Alan Sangster. 2. The long strange trip: a reflection on the historical relativity of accounting ethics Timothy J. Fogarty. 3. Accounting ethics education research: a historical review of the literature Lan Anh Nguyen & Steven Dellaportas. Part 2. Challenges, opportunities and developments. 4. Industry 4.0 – reimagining higher education and value transformation Philomena Leung. 5. Educating the next generation of accountants: how to promote ethical consciousness through critical thinking Ariela Caglio & Mara Cameran. 6. Ethical virtues, norms and values in accounting education Domènec Melé. 7. Building moral courage through a wisdom-focused accounting ethics course Michael K. Shaub. 8. Moral competence: what it means and how accountant education could foster it Georg Lind.

Margarida M. Pinheiro is an Adjunct Professor at the Aveiro Institute of Accounting and Administration of the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Alberto J. Costa is an Adjunct Professor at the Aveiro Institute of Accounting and Administration of the University of Aveiro, Portugal.