Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives & Accountants

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Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives & Accountants

Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives & Accountants

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Businesses and the accounting profession have never been under such close ethical scrutiny. Understanding why ethical behavior is so important to success and knowing potential pitfalls are key to reaching personal and organizational goals successfully. BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS FOR DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVES & ACCOUNTANTS, 8E demonstrates that it’s not just about learning rules. You must learn how to use ethical strategies, make ethical decisions, and integrate the latest information on ethics and governance scandals, legal liability and professional accounting and auditing issues. To keep learning interesting and underscore the importance of ethical issues, this edition provides more than 120 cases, including classic frauds, bankruptcies, loss of reputation, and unprofessional practices. Cases provide excellent opportunities for role playing and for developing your understanding of soft skills, including communications, persuasion, presentation, leadership and a global mindset.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781305971455
ISBN10 1305971450
Number Of Pages 632
Item Weight 1180 g
Product Dimensions 79 x 12 x 99 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cengage Learning, Inc
Format paperback
Edition 8th edition
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Author's Bio

Leonard J. Brooks is professor emeritus of business ethics and accounting at the Rotman School of Management, the Institute of Management & innovation and the Department of Management of the University of Toronto. He is the director emeritus of the Professional Accounting Centre, the Master of Forensic Accounting Program (formerly the Diploma in Investigative & Forensic Accounting Program) and the Master on Management & Professional Accounting programs at U. of T. Professor Brooks served 14 years on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Business Ethics and as founding editor of Corporate Ethics Monitor, a pioneering bimonthly publication. He has published articles on ethics issues in the Journal of Business Ethics, Accounting Organizations and Society, Canadian Accounting Perspectives and Business & Society. He co-authored "Business & Professional Ethics For Directors, Executives & Accountants," 9e, with Paul Dunn; "Ethics & Governance: Developing and Maintaining an Ethical Corporate Culture," 4e, with David Selley and "Principles of Stakeholder Management: The Clarkson Principles" with Lee Preston and Thomas Donaldson. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, he obtained his CA designation (in 1970) and subsequently became an audit manager and Director of Manpower for Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte.) in Toronto. Professor Brooks served as a member, then chair, of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants’ national Board of Examiners and chair of its national Syllabus Committee. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA) of Ontario in 1982. These professional designations were converted to CPA and FCPA in 2012. He consults with individuals, corporations, governmental and non-governmental organizations and serves as an expert witness and media-commentator. Professor Brooks is also a former director of the Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy and a former president of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association. Paul Dunn is a professor of business ethics at the Goodman School of Business, Brock University. Dr. Dunn has a doctorate in accounting from Boston University as well as two degrees in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He is a CPA who worked in downtown Toronto with Ernst & Young (as a chartered accountant), the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (in the finance division), as well as in the private sector (in controllership). Professor Dunn’s research focuses on ethics, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. His theory papers and empirical studies have appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Business & Society and Business Ethics Quarterly. He is consulting editor for the Journal of Business Ethics, associate editor for Business & Society Review as well as editorial member for Business & Society and the Journal of Management and Governance. The media in both Canada and internationally interview Paul Dunn regularly.

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