Category: Accounting
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Reviving ethical framework in professional practice
The repeated scandals and continuing financial malfeasance, such as the case of Carillion, Volkswagen, and famous Enron and WorldCom, have implicated accounting professionals and challenged their attributed role as ‘gatekeepers’ and the trustworthiness that legitimates their professional status. In order to mitigate this, corporate codes of conduct have proliferated among firms and university accounting programmes Read more
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“Re-Designing (business) Education” – CPD workshops
As part of ICAEW’s AuditFutures University project, I have collaborated with Martin Martinoff to design and lead a number of innovative and interactive workshops for educators and faculties within leading business schools in the country. Over the past three years, we have engaged and mobilised progressive academics in an inquiry to discuss the future of business and Read more
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Reviving the notion of telos in teaching ethics in accounting
(*This blog was initially published in the ICAEW academic community – https://ion.icaew.com/academia/b/blog/posts/reviving-the-notion-of-telos-purpose-in-teaching-ethics-in-accounting) Recently, the AuditFutures programme launched the “Future Professional” report, which envisions the ‘professional’ as someone more than an excellent technician but an individual who is genuinely engaged and holds a moral compass. As a reflection on the publication, I will attempt to alleviate the Read more
Plamena Pehlivanova 