Making a Difference with a Discrete Course on Accounting Ethics

Making a difference with a discrete course on accounting ethics

Calls for the expansion of ethics education in the business and accounting curricula have resulted in a variety of interventions including additional material on ethical cases, the code of conduct, and the development of new courses devoted to ethical development (Lampe, 1996). The issue of whether ethics should be taught has been addressed by many authors (see for example: McDonald and Donleav...

The Accounting Ethics Course Reconsidered

The debate on the effect of teaching ethics to accounting students has continued for decades. Prior studies on the effects of covering specific types of content on student ethics, including ethics theory and professional codes with accounting-specific cases and examples, have produced mixed results. This study examines the impact of a semester long accounting ethics course which incorporates a ...

a study on rate making and required reserves determination in reinsurance market: a simulation

reinsurance is widely recognized as an important instrument in the capital management of an insurance company as well as its risk management tool. this thesis is intended to determine premium rates for different types of reinsurance policies. also, given the fact that the reinsurance coverage of every company depends upon its reserves, so different types of reserves and the method of their calc...

Making a Difference in Teacher Education Courses: A Psychological Reconsideration

A course with a difference

Around 10,000 years ago, humans began to domesticate animals. This development—along with the domestication of crops—spread throughout Africa, Asia and Europe, and triggered a steady and unabated increase in the population. But this came at a price: humans living in close proximity to livestock became susceptible to new infectious microorganisms, which crossed the species barrier from animals t...