The purpose of this paper is to offer accounting educators additional perspectives for ethics education by considering teaching approaches from medicine and law. It takes the form of literature review and argument. The paper finds that ethics education in accounting shows deficiencies in terms of code-bound content, less systematic formal training, less informal hands-on training, and less usage of partnering in comparison to ethics education in medicine and law, thereby producing students with higher moral cognitive capabilities. Based on these findings, the authors provide some recommendations for improvement.

Data Availability:  Data used in this study are available from the first author upon request.

Keywords:
ethics, accounting ethics education, ethics education methods, medical ethics education, legal ethics education, collaboration between the academics and practitioners
2012
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