Professional sports are central to American culture. Not only is the Superbowl the most watched event each year on television, but tens of millions of Americans attend professional sports games in ...

Does anyone doubt the need for heightened standards of ethics in all the professions in the United States today? In recent scandals, too many accountants, lawyers, bankers, security analysts, and ...

Attorneys owe a fiduciary duty of loyalty and good faith to their clients, among others, which requires them to act solely for the client’s benefit. If an attorney violates this duty by engaging in ...

Standard setting organizations in more than 100 countries have adopted the International Federation of Accountants’ (IFAC) Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, while others are in the process ...

More than any time in recent history, ethics in science now gets as much—maybe more—media attention than results. Although most scientists always focused on ethical behavior, the community continues ...

Consequence ethics is a philosophical approach to morality by which the results of an action determine the potential good of the action. Consequence ethics suggests weighing the consequences of ...

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.