Code of Ethics for Accounting Educators

The objective of this survey is to evaluate the members’ opinion of the current document on ethics:
http://www.iaaer.org/about/files/EthicsENG.pdf.

November 14, 2009

As an IAAER member, you are aware of the importance of ethics in Accounting education and the Accounting profession. This year, I am conducting a survey of IAEER members with regard to their assessment of ethics of accounting educators.
 
Survey: The Code of Ethics of Accounting Educators
 
In 2002, the IAAER published a Global Code of Ethics for Accounting Educators. This code was the work of a special IAAER task force chaired by Norlin Rueschhoff of the University of Notre Dame.  It was approved by the Executive Committee and presented to the membership at the IAAER World Congress of Accounting Educators in Hong Kong in 2002 and now appears on the IAAER website.  A briefing of the code appeared in the September 2008 edition of Accounting Education: An International Journal.
 
The objective of this survey is to evaluate the members’ opinion of the current document, which represents the official position of IAAER, and to develop benchmarks of accounting education ethics in advance of the IAAER World Congress in Singapore in November 2010.
 
The survey consists of the following three sections:
1. Overview – This section contains general questions regarding ethics in accounting education.
2. Framework for Globally Recognized Standards – This section asks members for their opinions on the 32 ethics guidelines contained in the code.  
3. Demographic Information – No answers are associated with individual identifying information.
 
The survey should take no longer than 10-15 minutes to complete and will remain open until December 15, 2009. If you have questions about the survey or about my work on ethics in general, you can find my contact details listed on this page.
 
Survey: The Code of Ethics of Accounting Educators

Thank you for your time.
 
Sincerely,

Belverd E. Needles, Jr., Ph.D. CPA
Ernst & Young Distinguished Professor of Accounting
DePaul University
bneedles@depaul.edu