Neu, Dean and Duncan Green. (2006) Truth or Profit?: The Ethics and Business of Public Accounting. Fernwood Publishing

Product Description
This broad analysis of public accountancy examines the historical evolution of the discipline, arguing that it is both a business and a public service, and therefore subject to the tension between the two facets of its operation. This tension is widely apparent in today's climate of corporate accounting scandals, as corporate executives are handcuffed and accounting firms are implicated in their financial mismanagement. The authors pose the question Are public accountants simply profit-driven, self-serving window dressing for greedy multinational corporations, or is the profession doing the best it can in the face of difficult circumstances, trying to uncover monetary truth?

About the Author
Dean Neu is the future fund professor of accounting in the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Accounting for Genocide. Duncan Green is a senior accounting instructor in the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and has written several articles about the corporate governance responsibilities of boards of directors. They both live in Calgary, Alberta.

Brooks, Leonard J. (2006) Business and Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives, and Accountants, South-Western College Publications, 4th edition.

Product Description
Learn to make the most ethical decisions possible with BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS FOR DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVES, AND ACCOUNTANTS! Providing real-world examples of ethical issues in the workplace, this accounting text gives you insight into the development of sound patterns of behavior on the part of directors, executives, and accountants. Current cases and key readings provide an interesting, challenging, and practical learning experience.

Book Info
Text focuses on practical development of the skills needed to deal with ethical issues specific to accounting. Updated to include new cases, coverage of governance and accountability reform in business, professional accounting reform, and more. Previous edition: c2000. Softcover. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Duska, Ronald F. and Brenda Shay Duska. (2003) Accounting Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell

Product Description
Accounting Ethics uses concrete examples and case studies, including current situations such as the Enron/Arthur Andersen debacle, to examine the ethical responsibilities of individual accountants as well as accounting firms. The book offers a comprehensive overview of ethics in accounting, as well as an examination of and recommendations for solving the current crisis in this field; investigates the nature and purpose of accounting; uses concrete examples and case studies, including current situations such as the Enron/Arthur Andersen debacle; examines the ethical responsibilities of individual accountants as well as accounting firms .

Review
"Accounting Ethics is a book for our troubled times. The Duskas provide a basic primer on ethics for accounting that is helpful to accountants and non-accountants alike. They deftly weave the saga of Enron and Arthur Andersen through a practical and realistic presentation of accounting ethics."
--Thomas W. Dunfee, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

"This book is a long awaited and significant contribution to business ethics. At last, a book that addresses the full range of accounting, tax, and audit issues, integrating the perspective of the accounting profession with that of a trained ethicist. This is a must-read for everyone in the accounting profession and in business ethics. Bravo Duskas!"
--Patricia H. Werhane, Darden Graduate School, University of Virginia

Beauchamp, Tom L., LeRoy Walters, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and Anna C. Mastroianni (2007) Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Wadsworth Publishing, 7th edition.

Product Description: Contemporary Issues in Bioethics presents a breadth of issues and balanced coverage of the most important topics in bioethics, including human reproduction, euthanasia and assisted suicide, genetics, the right to health care, organ transplantation, human and animal research, and planning for threats to public health. With a diverse range of classic and contemporary essays written by scholars in bioethics and judges in landmark legal cases, this anthology will help you understand issues from a variety of perspectives.

About the Authors
Tom Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He was born in Austin, Texas. He received graduate degrees from Yale University and The Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970. He then joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and in the mid-70s accepted a joint appointment at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 1976, he joined the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he wrote the bulk of The Belmont Report (1978). Dr. Beauchamp's research interests are in Hume and the history of modern philosophy and practical ethics, especially biomedical ethics and business ethics.

LeRoy Walters was born in Illinois and spent his elementary and secondary school years in Pennsylvania. He attended a small Pennsylvania liberal-arts college, Messiah College, receiving his B.A. in 1962. After finishing a B.D. degree at the Associated Mennonite Seminaries in 1965, Dr. Walters studied for two years in Germany, one year at the University of Heidelberg and one year at the Free University of Berlin. In 1967 Walters returned to the United States and began a Ph.D. program in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He finished his Ph.D. in Christian ethics in the spring of 1971. During the summer of 1971, Walters joined the newly-established Kennedy Institute of Ethics as the first faculty member appointed to a multi-year term. He has remained a member of the Kennedy Institute since 1971. In 1975, Dr. Walters received an appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1980 and the rank of Professor in 1993. In the latter year he was also named the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute. During the summer of 1996 Dr. Walters accepted a three-year term as Director of the Kennedy Institute.

Jeffrey P. Kahn is a rofessor in the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, and Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Kahn is also Director of the Center for Bioethics, and Maas Family Chair in Bioethics at the University of Minnesota.

Anna C. Mastroianni is Associate Professor of Law and Public Health Genetics at the University of Washington.