Accounting Ethics or Analytical Methods for Lawyers

Accounting Ethics

Author: Ronald F Duska PhD

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.

• 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 .

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Enron, Arthur Andersen, and the Financial Markets: A Chronology of Wall Street Journal Articles
	And then there was WorldCom
	Introduction	1
1	The Nature of Accounting and the Chief Ethical Difficulty: True Disclosure	7
2	Ethical Behavior in Accounting: What is Ethics?	24
3	Ethical Behavior in Accounting: Ethical Theory	45
4	Accounting as a Profession	65
5	Accounting Codes of Ethics: The Principles	74
6	Accounting Codes of Ethics: The Rules	93
7	Ethics in Auditing: The Auditing Function	106
8	The Ethics of Managerial and Financial Accounting	140
9	The Ethics of Tax Accounting	156
10	The Ethics of the Accounting Firm: The Accounting Profession in Crisis	173
App. I	The Code of Professional Conduct of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants	199
App. II	Institute of Management Accountants: Ethical Standards	213
App. III	Statement on Auditing Standards: A Summary	217
App. IV	Revision of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Auditor Independence Requirements	234
App. V	Statements on Standards for Tax Services Nos. 1-8	245
	Index	269

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Analytical Methods for Lawyers

Author: Howell E Jackson

This law school casebook was developed by a team of professors at Harvard Law School to introduce students with little or no quantitative background to the basic analytical techniques that attorneys need to master to represent their clients effectively. This casebook presents clear explanations of decision analysis, games and information, contracting, accounting, finance, microeconomics, economic analysis of the law, fundamentals of statistics, and multiple regression analysis.