26A SURVEY OF DIVERSITY ETHICS IN THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION
Introduction
Multiple research studies have documented the positive association between diverse professional teams and integrated global professional services supply chains with increased creativity, innovation, productivity, and performance as well as increases to accounting professional impacts in society (Deloitte 2018; E&Y 2020; KPMG 2018). This chapter reviews publicly available data from the accounting profession in order to develop a deeper understanding of diversity ethics within the US accounting profession. Diversity is both the amount and the variance of differing human characteristics within the entire professional workforce or within any one organization ...