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, ...

What is right and what is wrong behavior in the business world takes on different meanings in different cultures, making it challenging to truly define business ethics in international markets.

Conceptual frameworks drawn from theories that have shaped the study of ethics over centuries can help us recognize and describe ethical issues when we encounter them. In this way, a basic grasp of ...

All of morality aims at the same thing but there are several basic ways to get there. If you prefer, each approach is like a different tool—a hammer, a nail, a level. Using the right tool for the ...

Hana Callaghan is the director of the Government Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the author of Campaign Ethics, A Field Guide. The opinions expressed herein are her own.

“We’re running for the Niles Board of Ethics, not the Niles Board of Saints.” Niles Ethics Board candidate Paul Kotowski felt the need to clarify that point in response to a question about his ...