Accounting for the Public Interest Perspectives on Accountability Professionalism and Role in Society 1st Edition Michael K. Shaub

1. Professionalism in Accounting: Myth or Reality?

1. Call of Duty: A Framework for Auditors’ Ethical Decisions

2. Professionalizing the Tax Accounting Profession: Fulfilling Public-Interest Reporting Responsibilities

3. The Bloom Is Off the Rose: Deprofessionalization in Public Accounting

2. An Ethic of Accountability, Societal Responsibilities, and Accounting for the Public Interest

4. Taking Pluralism Seriously Within an Ethic of Accountability

5. Social and Economic Implications of Increasing Income Inequality: Accountability Concerns

6. Professionalism, the Public Interest, and Social Accounting

3. Defining the Public Interest in Accounting

7. Alternative Perspectives on Accounting in the Public Interest

8. The IFAC Framework: International Accounting and the Public Interest

4. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Reporting

9. Developing Corporate Reporting in the Public Interest: The Question of Mandatory CSR Reporting and the Potential for Its Integration with Financial Reporting

10. Environmental Disclosure as Legitimation: Is It in the Public Interest?

5. Virtue and Public Interest Considerations of Bribery and Whistle-Blowing

11. Facilitation Payments in International Business Transactions: Law, Accounting, and the Public Interest

12. Whistle-Blowing in the Classroom: The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Whistleblowers