Ethics Research

Ethics research is at the utmost importance due to the recent lack of ethical decision-making among top business leaders and associated major economic losses.  This has resulted in renewed calls for college education to promote and enhance ethical decision-making

Karla Johnstone and Brian Mayhew are in the process of completing a longitudinal study investigating factors influencing ethical development in college students.  The study will investigate the outcomes of current ethics cases performed in classes.  Their research will provide educational benefits to students as it will develop into ethic case studies for individual classes and a teaching article.

For more information, contact Karla Johnstone at kjohnstone@bus.wisc.edu or Brian Mayhew at bmayhew@bus.wisc.edu. 

 

Professors in the Accounting department have the opportunity to enhance existing research thanks to the resources provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).  PwC has sponsored funding for an ethics and professionalism program in the Department of Accounting.  Click here for more information about the PricewaterhouseCoopers funded program.

Howard Carver, a retired partner from Ernst and Young, has committed an endowment to the Center for Advanced Studies in Professional Accounting to fund the ethics program after the PwC three-year grant.