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Identifying Ethical Hypernorms For Accounting Educators, Steven Mintz Dec 2011

Identifying Ethical Hypernorms For Accounting Educators, Steven Mintz

Steven Mintz

Accounting educators have a unique role in academe because students learn about codes of ethics that will guide their actions as professionals. We identify hypernorms related to internal auditing educators that reflect unethical behaviors believed to be universally unacceptable by that community. We then compare the results to a prior survey of accounting educators and identify ethical principles for accounting academics in their roles as teachers and researchers. The results might help to develop a code of ethics for accounting educators to help them serve as role models for students as they prepare to enter the accounting profession.


Wisdom From Warren Buffett, Todd A. Finkle Dec 2011

Wisdom From Warren Buffett, Todd A. Finkle

Todd A Finkle

This article documents a trip that was made to visit Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway world at his Global Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. A select number of universities are invited to visit Buffett every year. Gonzaga University was fortunate to be invited by Buffett based on an innovative assignment assigned by Dr. Todd A. Finkle in an entrepreneurship course. This article discusses the strategy that was used to get Buffett to invite Gonzaga to visit Buffett. The trip to Omaha entailed visiting two of Berkshire Hathaway’s subsidiaries Furniture Mart and Borsheim’s Jewelers; a 2.5 hour question and …