Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting

Tara J. Shawver, CMA, is the Department Chair and Professor of Accounting at King’s College, Pennsylvania, USA. Tara is an active member of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). She has received numerous awards and honors for her work including the 2022 Excellence in Accounting Ethics Education award by the AAA for the development, implementation, and dissemination of new pedagogy for teaching ethics to accounting students. She has received the 2022 IMA Champion Award for her exceptional volunteerism and leadership. In 2020, she received an Outstanding Author Contribution Emerald Literati Award. She has authored or co-authored over 45 articles and book chapters. She has co-authored a book entitled “Giving Voice to Values in Accounting". Her research interests include financial reporting, ethics, whistleblowing, fraud, and ethics education.

Chapter 1. Changing Internal Auditing from a Compliance-Based to a Conduct-Focused Approach; Woon Gan Soh, Elena P. Antonacopoulou, Clare Rigg, Lourdes F. White, and Regina F. Bento

Chapter 2. Improving Ethical Compliance in Accounting and Business: An Ethics Code Focused Value Self-Confrontation Approach; Donald L. Ariail, Katherine Taken Smith, L. Murphy Smith, Renier Steyn, and Amine Khayati

Chapter 3. The Importance of Whistleblowing Persistence in Audit Team Member Peer Reporting: The Impact of Communication Medium and Client Importance; Phebian L. Davis, Amy M. Donnelly, and Robin R. Radtke

Chapter 4. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Corporate Social Responsibility Performance and Disclosures of U.S. Corporations; Lois S. Mahoney, Daniel R. Brickner, William LaGore, and Phil Lewis

Chapter 5. Fraudulent Research Practices in Accounting: A Replication and Extension of Bailey, Hasselback and Karcher (2001); Charles D. Bailey

Chapter 6. Letting the Air Out of Independence Issues: Examining Aviary Corporation and Western Accounting Firm; Jennifer Hamrick, James D. Byrd, Jr., Alex Clark, and Rosemary Kim

Chapter 7. A Fraud at Turbo Global Partners Inc.: A Case Study; Subash Adhikari and Srinivasan Ragothaman

Chapter 8. Developing Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, and Decision-Making Skills Using A Whistleblowing Case Study; Steven M. Mintz