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eBook Details:
Full title: Business and Professional Ethics, 9th Edition
Edition: 9th
Copyright year: 2021
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Author: Leonard J. Brooks; Paul Dunn
ISBN: 9780357441879, 9780357441879
Format: PDF
Description of Business and Professional Ethics, 9th Edition:
In the wake of ethical scandals and close ethical scrutiny throughout business and the accounting professional today, Brooks/Dunn’s BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, 9E provides the ethical insights and strategies you need for corporate and professional success. Learn why ethical behavior is so important and how to recognize potential pitfalls that involve much more than memorizing rules. You master the skills to develop a corporate culture of integrity that maintains stakeholder support and enables directors and auditors to complete their jobs. You also learn how to use ethical strategies to make decisions, as this edition examines the latest information on governance scandals, legal liability and professional accounting and auditing issues. More than 130 cases and readings highlight new and classic cases of fraud, bankruptcy and unprofessional practices to help you better understand appropriate codes of conduct and sound ethical reasoning while strengthening your persuasive and leadership skills for success.Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Table of Contents of Business and Professional Ethics, 9th Edition PDF ebook:
DedicationAbout the AuthorsContentsPrefaceOverview of the BookChapter 1: Ethics ExpectationsThe Ethics Environment for Business: The Battle for Credibility, Reputation, & Competitive AdvantageNew Expectations for BusinessResponses & DevelopmentsThe Ethics Environment for Professional AccountantsManaging Ethics Risks & OpportunitiesQuestionsReading InsightsReferencesCase InsightsCases Involving Improper BehaviorAdvertising & Sales Promotion CasesCases Involving Financial TransactionsCases Involving the Control of InformationCases Concerning the EnvironmentProduct Safety CasesAccounting & Auditing CasesChapter 2: Ethics & Governance ScandalsEthics & Governance: A Time Line of Important EventsEthics & Governance: The Early Developments Prior to 1970Ethics & Governance: 1970-1990Ethics & Governance: The Modern Era-1990 to the PresentSignificant Ethics & Governance Scandals & EventsSigns of Ethical CollapseEthics & Governance: TrendsEthics & Governance: Timetables of Important Events, 1929-2019Useful Videos & FilmsQuestionsCase InsightsChapter 3: Ethical Behavior-Philosophers’ ContributionsEthics & Moral CodesEthics & BusinessSelf-Interest & EconomicsEthics, Business, & the LawMajor Ethical Theories Useful in Resolving Ethical DilemmasMoral ImaginationQuestionsCase InsightsUseful Video & FilmReferencesCases Involving Improper BehaviorChapter 4: Practical Ethical Decision MakingIntroductionMotivating Developments for Ethical LearningEthical Decision Making Framework-An OverviewPhilosophical Approaches-An Overview: Consequentialism (Utilitarianism), Deontology, & Virtue EthicsSniff Tests & Common Heuristics-Preliminary Tests of EthicalityStakeholder Impact Analysis-Comprehensive Tool for Assessing Decisions & ActionsStakeholder Impact Analysis-Modified Traditional Decision-Making ApproachesIntegrating Philosophical & Stakeholder Impact Analysis ApproachesOther Ethics Decision-Making IssuesA Comprehensive Ethical Decision-Making FrameworkConclusionQuestionsReferencesIllustrative Applications & Case InsightsChapter 5: Corporate Ethical Governance & AccountabilityModern Governance & Accountability Framework-To Shareholders & Other StakeholdersThreats to Good Governance & AccountabilityKey Elements of Corporate Governance & AccountabilityConclusion-Toward a Culture of IntegrityQuestionsCase InsightsReading InsightsReferencesCases on Ethical Corporate CultureCases on Ethical LeadershipCases on BriberyCases on Corporate Governance & Managerial OpportunismCases on Fraudulent & Questionable Financial ReportingCriminal Charges for Fraud DismissedStock Market CasesCases on Product SafetyAppendix A: Alternative Governance TheoriesChapter 6: Professional Accounting in the Public InterestProfessionalism for AccountantsProfessional Accounting’s Traditional RoleHistoric Shortfalls in Meeting Professional ExpectationsProfessional Accounting and the Public InterestNew Noclar StandardsImplications for Services OfferedProfessional Codes of ConductLaws & JurisprudenceMoral Courage Is Vital to Professional Accounting: Globalization Heightens the RequirementWhen Codes & Laws Do Not HelpBroadening Role for Professional AccountantsConclusionQuestionsReading InsightsCase InsightsReferencesFamous CasesProfessional & Fiduciary Duty CasesAccounting & Auditing DilemmasFundamental Accounting and Auditing Issues CasesTax and Regulatory CasesChapter 7: Managing Ethics Risks & OpportunitiesEthics Risks & Opportunities Identification & AssessmentEthics Risks & Opportunities: Management & MitigationEthics Risks & Opportunities: Effective Stakeholder RelationsEthics Risks & Opportunties: Stakeholder AccountabilityEthics Risks & Opportunities: Key Risk Issues & ToolsConclusionQuestionsCase InsightsReading InsightsReferencesCSR Cases-Environmental IssuesWorkplace Ethics Cases-Discrimination and AbuseWorkplace Ethics Cases-SpyingWorkplace Ethics Cases-White-Collar CrimeBribery & International Operations CasesRisk & Crisis Management CasesAppendix A: Ethics Audit Program Annual Audit QuestionsChapter 8: Subprime Lending Fiasco-Ethics IssuesThe Economic Train Wreck-A Global DisasterStages of the Subprime Lending FiascoHow Did the Subprime Lending Crisis Happen?Ethics Issues-The Subprime Lending FiascoEthics LessonsQuestionsCase InsightsReferencesIndex
