1st Edition

Ethical Issues in Accounting

Edited By John Blake, Catherine Gowthorpe Copyright 1998
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    Ethical Issues in Accounting offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction for students and teachers of business studies and accountancy as well as the practicing accountant.
    The book covers the ethical implications of several aspects of accounting:

    * ethics and taxation
    * creative accounting
    * ethics in accounting regulation
    * ethical dilemmas in the public sector
    * whistleblowing
    * various aspects of social accounting, including environmental accounting.
    The fitness of the accounting profession as guardians of accounting and auditing ethics is also discussed in detail.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 The Ethics of Accounting Regulation, John Blake, Julia Clarke, Catherine Gowthorpe; Chapter 2 The Ethics of Creative Accounting, John Blake, Oriol Amat, Jack Dowds; Chapter 3 The Accountant as Whistleblower, Susan Richardson, Bill Richardson; Chapter 4 Assumptions, Values and Principles, Alan Lovell; Chapter 5 Taxation and Ethical Issues, Catherine Pilkington; Chapter 6 The Professional Accounting Bodies as the Guardians of Accounting and Auditing Ethics, John Blake, Ray Gardiner; Chapter 7 The Part isanship of the Accountancy Bodies, Prem Sikka; Chapter 8 Ethical Issues and the Auditor, Catherine Gowthorpe; Chapter 9 A Model for Ethical Education in Accounting, Ray Carroll; Chapter 10 Values and Accounting, Catherine Gowthorpe; Chapter 11 Corporate Social Reporting, Julia Clarke;

    Biography

    Catherine Gowthorpe is Principal Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Central Lancashire. John Blake is Professor of Accounting at the University of Central Lancashire.