The Ethics of Accounting & Finance: Trust, Responsibility, and Control

The Ethics of Accounting & Finance:Trust, Responsibility, and Control

EDITED BY W. MICHAEL HOFFMAN, JUDITH BROWN KAMM, ROBERT E. FREDERICK AND EDWARD S. PETRY

Quorum Books, 88 Post Rd.W, Westport, CT 06881 248 pp. $59.95

Here are the best papers from the Tenth National Conference on Business Ethics, sponsored by Bentley College's Center for Business Ethics. Throughout this publication, contributors from academe, law, government, and finance and accounting fields emphasize the ethical dimensions of problems and issues that confront the financial services and accounting industries as well as issues that are of critical importance to business in general. Part I examines the ethics of the fiduciary relationship between principals and agents; Parts II and III look at cases that illustrate specific issues in ethics and financial disclosure; and Part IV offers ethics lessons from the past, and a look toward the future.