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RESEARCH ON PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING

RESEARCH ON PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING

Series Editor: Charles Richard Baker

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RESEARCH ON PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING VOLUME 24

RESEARCH ON PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING

EDITED BY

CHARLES RICHARD BAKER

Adelphi University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2021

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ISBN: 978-1-83753-229-2 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-83753-228-5 (Online)

ISBN: 978-1-83753-230-8 (Epub)

ISSN: 1574-0765 (Series)

Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting is devoted to publishing research and cases that focus on the professional responsibilities of accountants and how they deal with the ethical issues they face. The series features articles on a broad range of important and timely topics, including professionalism, social responsibility, corporate responsibility, ethical judgments, and accountability. The professional responsibilities of accountants are broad-based; they must serve clients and user groups whose needs, incentives, and goals may be in conflict. Further, accountants must interpret and apply codes of conduct, accounting and auditing principles, and securities regulations. Compliance with professional guidelines is judgment-based, and characteristics of the individual, the culture, and situation affect how these guidelines are interpreted and applied, as well as when they might be violated. Interactions between accountants, regulators, standard setters, and industries also have ethical components. Research into the nature of these interactions, resulting dilemmas, and how and why accountants resolve them is the focus of this journal.

Charles Richard Baker is a Professor of Accounting at the Willumstad School of Business, Adelphi University, New York. His research interests are focused on the public accounting profession, in particular: ethical issues, independence, legal liability, the history of the accounting profession, and comparative systems of regulation. He has published over 120 academic and profession articles and he is a Member of the editorial boards of seven academic and professional journals. He received a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and he is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in New York State.