Managerial accounting is an internal business function responsible for managing a company's financial information. Business owners often use managerial accounting to allocate business costs to goods ...

Ethics and standards in accounting exist to protect the public from unscrupulous corporations and the accountants who hide or misrepresent information. Certainly, not all accountants are unethical, ...

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants has released a staff alert on private equity investment in accounting firms and the related ethical and independence concerns. Processing ...

The Institute of Management Accountants is commemorating Global Ethics Day by highlighting the work it’s been doing to improve ethics for accountants, while acknowledging that more needs to be done.

Considering accountants deal with the intimate financial details of individuals and businesses, it’s important that they abide by strict ethical standards. “Ethics are the ‘why’ before the ‘how’ — why ...

Author discusses the ethics of disclosing the cost of treatments to patients before prescribing them and weighing financial risk vs medical care. The practice of medicine requires high moral standards ...