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Accountant ethics and historical relativity
Accounting scholars who focus their attention on the ethics of accounting practice do so in order to learn how it might be possible for the accounting profession to be better positioned in order to do good in the world. Each gathering of these scholars should pose the question why, after all the study of accountant ethics over many years that researchers have been at work in this area, good answers that would amount to progress have not emerged. The purpose of this chapter is to resuscitate the question and to offer an answer that is not really an answer but a provocation. Dialogue is important, and therefore the hope is to spur others into formulating their own ...
