Ethical Obligations and Decision-Making in Accounting: Text and Cases

by Steven Mintz

Ethical Obligations and Decision-Making in Accounting gives students a robust ethical framework that is crucial for accountants in the post-Enron era. Incorporating the principles of the AICPA code and other systems of ethics, Mintz and Morris show accounting students how a commitment to ethics can enable accounting professionals to meet their ethical obligations both to investors and creditors. No other book so comprehensively examines the elements of the financial reporting system - including the ethics of the internal control environment and the effectiveness of board of director and audit committee oversight - that determine the ethical standard of the accounting process.

Genres: School

304 pages, Paperback

First published February 20, 2007

About the author

Steven Mintz is an American historian at the University of Texas at Austin.

In addition to a commitment to pedagogy, interests on which he has published widely include the history of the American family and children, film and history, immigration and ethnic history.

A cultural historian trained in the methods of the new social history, he is the author and editor of 14 history books, focusing on such topics as families and children, antebellum reform, slavery and antislavery, ethnicity, and film.

Reviews

[Samo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ugh. This book was poorly edited and poorly worded. It skipped all over the place and could have been written more clearly.

[Gwynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alright for a textbook :)

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

There was some useful knowledge in here, but many of the cases were quite puerile. If you were raised ethically, then you'll get what you're supposed to do without being told. If you weren't, you aren't going to get it.