There is a consensus among marketing educators, scholars, and practitioners that business ethics, in particular, and marketing ethics must be a vital part of a marketing student's education. However, a survey of the best business schools in the United States reveals that most of them do not offer a stand-alone business ethics course, let alone a…

The basic business statistics course is ideal for incorporating multiple objectives related to program learning goals common at most business schools. Along with quantitative reasoning skills, activities are described that allow the measurement of student outcomes related to oral communication and ethics. Strategies include the hidden curriculum…

Recently, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) has focused its attention on mandating specific ethics coursework within the 150-hr requirement for eligibility to sit for the uniform CPA examination. This push for ethics education heightened attention toward ethics in the accounting curriculum and is the basis for the…

Responses from 35 of 79 accounting-accredited business schools, 63 of 148 accredited in business only by the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and 88 of 205 non-AACSB accredited schools indicated minimal coverage of fraudulent financial reporting in course content. Accounting-accredited schools had greatest breadth of…

A survey of 75 business faculty revealed that 80% spent less than 3 hours per year covering Internet privacy issues. There was a discrepancy between self-perceptions of their knowledge of the issues and their ability to answer questions about them. Better-informed faculty were not those who spent the most time addressing the issues. (Contains 22…