Index

Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting

ISBN: 978-1-83753-229-2, eISBN: 978-1-83753-228-5

ISSN: 1574-0765

Publication date: 11 October 2021

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(2021), "Index", Baker, C.R. (Ed.) Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting (Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting, Vol. 24), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 221-228. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1574-07652023012

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Copyright © 2021 Charles Richard Baker


INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Access discrimination
, 76, 82

Accounting
, 40–41, 108, 166, 180–185, (see also Financial reporting)

education
, 47

educators
, 40

fraud
, 123

misstatement
, 123

professionals
, 150

reporting
, 122

Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release (AAER)
, 123, 130

Accounting curriculum, implementing GVV into
, 51–52

Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC)
, 86

Accounting ethics
, 6, 22

education literature and GVV
, 22, 25–28

integrating GVV into accounting ethics course
, 28–34

Accounting expertise
, 107, 113–114

influence of
, 110–111

Action
, 23

Agency theory
, 122

Aggressive financial reporting
, 106

Alignment
, 4, 24

American Accounting Association (AAA)
, 2

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
, 76

American Institute of CPA (AICPA)
, 2, 176

Auditing Standards Board
, 177

code of conduct
, 8

Code of Professional Conduct
, 51, 76, 179

ANOVA

analysis
, 88

models
, 112, 114

Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
, 23

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
, 76, 109

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
, 2

Audit
, 166

materiality
, 176

Auditors
, 176, 177, 181–182

traits
, 179

Auriga virtutum
, 44

Awareness of ethical issues
, 23

“Bar Mitzvah” sacrament
, 182

Between-subjects design
, 87–88

Bloomberg CSR disclosure scores
, 63

Business

practitioners
, 108

religion and
, 178–180

Buybacks
, 58–65, 67

C-level executives
, 106

Capital

cost
, 140

markets
, 122

Career Mobility Factors
, 85

Cash
, 64

holdings
, 62

payments
, 60

Chief financial officer (CFO)
, 77, 106–108, 114

accounting experts
, 111

Choice
, 4, 24

Client confidentiality
, 179

Code of conduct
, 5, 8

Code of Professional Conduct
, 179, 184

Cognitive dissonance
, 179

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of Treadway Commission (COSO)
, 106

Committing bank fraud
, 50

Common good
, 199

Compustat Execucomp file
, 133

Confirmatory factor analysis
, 155

Confusion Matrix
, 163

Continuum model of impression formation
, 96

Control environment
, 106–108, 113

influence of
, 109–110

Control variables
, 64

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act)
, 48, 50

Corporate governance
, 59

Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
, 58, 81

control variables
, 64

dependent variable
, 63

descriptive statistics
, 64–65

disclosures
, 58–59, 59–61

empirical model
, 62

independent variables
, 63–64

literature review and hypothesis development
, 59

performance
, 61

regression results
, 65–70

research methodology and design
, 62

sample selection and data sources
, 62

Correlation matrix
, 9

Cost

of capital
, 140

cost-benefit analysis
, 79–80

Cost of debt
, 123, 128–129, 148

test
, 132–133

Cost of equity
, 123, 126–128, 147

test
, 132

Courage
, 42

COVID-19 pandemic
, 176

Critical thinking skills
, 41

Debt-to-equity
, 64

ratio
, 62

Decision-making, soft skills importance in
, 41–42

Defining Issues Test (DIT)
, 167–168

Demographics
, 86

Department of Labor (DOL)
, 202

Dependent variable
, 63

Descriptive statistics
, 64–65

DirectEDGAR
, 133

Disclosure
, 79

Discriminant analysis
, 159

with general statistics
, 161–163

Diversity of moral virtues
, 44

Dodd-Frank Act (2010)
, 79

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010)
, 76

Durable moral courage
, 78, 80, 83–84, 87, 91, 93–94, 97

Earnings management (EM)
, 106, 122

background and hypotheses
, 108

EMC
, 113

firms
, 123

hypotheses
, 109

incentive for
, 124

influence of accounting expertise
, 110–111

influence of control environment
, 109–110

manager identification
, 130–131, 146

and perception of workplace environment
, 108–109

Earnings management consequence (EMC)
, 113

Economic uncertainty
, 49

Educators
, 6

Effective ICFR
, 122

Emotion
, 80

Employees
, 105–107, 109, 192

Employment candidate
, 86–87

Enforcement
, 129

Environmental CSR
, 59, 64

Environmental disclosure
, 63–64

Essential skills
, 41

Ethical assessments
, 107

Ethical behavior
, 22–23, 150

Ethical CFO
, 106–107

Ethical climate
, 106, 108–109

Ethical decision-making

processes
, 2

studies
, 3–4

Ethical education of accounting students
, 22

Ethical judgment
, 107, 108, 110

Ethical leader behaviors
, 150–151

Ethical leadership
, 108, 153

behaviors
, 151

failures
, 150

Ethical Leadership Survey (ELS)
, 157

Ethical problem resolution
, 2

Ethical values
, 106

Ethicality of EM practice
, 108

Ethics
, 34

and Compliance Initiative
, 106

conflict
, 2

education
, 1–2, 22

Euclidean distance
, 161

Executive compensation
, 137–140, 146–147

test
, 131–132

Executive fraud

alteration to SP-NOI growth numbers
, 174

Executives
, 106

Expected practice
, 47

Experiential learning

process
, 40, 45, 52

theory
, 46

External stakeholders
, 60

External whistleblowing
, 79

F-score
, 123, 129–130

Fairness
, 199, 201

Feature extraction
, 163–166

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
, 22

Finance professionals
, 106

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
, 176, 181

Financial reporting
, 106, 108, 122, 166

dependent variable
, 112–113

design
, 112

independent variables
, 113–114

methods
, 111

participants
, 111–112

results
, 114–117

Firms
, 58

financial performance
, 122

manager
, 122

Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA)
, 193

Follow-the-leader misstating financial statements

AAERs
, 123

cost of capital
, 140

cost of debt
, 128–129

cost of debt test
, 132–133

cost of equity
, 126–128

cost of equity test
, 132

data
, 133

data and research design
, 129

descriptive statistics
, 134–137

executive compensation
, 137–140

executive compensation test
, 131–132

ICFR
, 122

identification of EM manager and non-EM manager samples
, 130–131, 146

industry-leader fraud and incentive for earnings management among industry peers
, 124–126

limitations and future research
, 141–142

literature and hypotheses development
, 124

managerial compensation
, 126

sample selection
, 129–130

variable definitions
, 146–148

Fraud
, 123, (see also Industry-leader fraud)

investigators
, 182

as qualitative judgment
, 182

Fraudulent financial reporting decisions
, 3

Fraudulent reporting
, 41

G-7 countries
, 194

Gig economy
, 195

Gig workers
, 195–196

Giving voice to values (GVV)
, 3, 4, 22, 40

accounting ethics education literature and
, 25–28

assumptions and principles
, 23–25

curriculum
, 4–5

dependent variable
, 12–14

evaluated by participants
, 19

impact of GVV module
, 8–9

implementation literature
, 5–6

implementing GVV curriculum
, 6–8

integrating GVV into accounting ethics course
, 28–34

integration
, 22–23

literature review
, 3

measurement instrument
, 8

methodology
, 6

Pearson’s correlation coefficients
, 11

reporting outlets
, 10

results
, 8

values preferences and ethical decision-making studies
, 3–4

Global Business Ethics
, 106

Global Reporting Initiative
, 63

Gnomē
, 44–45

Governance CSR
, 59

Great Workplace
, 113

Habit of voicing
, 23

Halacha (legal) authority in Jewish timeline
, 189–190

Hard-core pornography
, 177

Hierarchical regression analysis
, 155

High profile accounting-related ethical failures
, 22

Highly religious Metropolitan Statistical Areas (HRMSA)
, 179

Hiring bias
, 76–78, 82, 95–96

Honesty
, 106

Idealized influence
, 153

Ignation Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP)
, 26

Illegal earnings management behavior
, 122

IMA code of conduct
, 8

Immaterial change causing material impact
, 181

Incentive for earnings management
, 124

independent contractor
, 192

Independent variables
, 63–64

Individual transformational leadership behaviors
, 158

Individualized consideration
, 153

Industry-leader AAERs
, 129

Industry-leader fraud
, 124

and analyst expectations
, 124–125

and RPE
, 125–126

Information-processing behavior
, 111

Insider Trading Case
, 22

Inspirational motivation
, 153

Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)
, 106

Institute of Management Accountants
, 106

Institutional Review Board
, 158

approval
, 111

Integrity
, 106

Intellectual stimulation
, 153

Intentional consumption
, 184

Intentions and materiality
, 184–185

Internal control over financial reporting (ICFR)
, 122

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
, 192

Internal whistleblowing
, 79, 84

International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA)
, 76

Jewish law
, 186n10

Judaic examples of substance vs. form
, 185

Judaism
, 180–185

Knowledge of financial reporting
, 108

KPMG Tax Shelter Case
, 22

Leader effectiveness
, 151, 157

data collection
, 158–159

discriminant analysis with general statistics
, 161–163

ethical leader behaviors
, 150–151

ethical leadership
, 153

literature review
, 151

PNN
, 163–166

research question
, 153–155

results
, 161

statistical application
, 159–161

study details
, 155–156

study implications
, 166–169

study variables
, 156–158

transformational leadership
, 151–153

Leadership
, 105–106

behaviors
, 150

Learning process
, 46, 163

Likert scale
, 156

Locus of loyalty
, 4, 47, 50

Locus of responsibility
, 4, 47, 50

Managerial compensation
, 123, 126

Market-to-book

ratio
, 62

value
, 64

Material misstatement
, 122

Materiality
, 4, 47, 176–178, 180–185

Halacha (legal) authority in Jewish timeline
, 189–190

judaism, accounting, and materiality
, 180–185

judgments
, 176

religion and business
, 178–180

Mayzid
, 184

Meredith Merriweather
, 48

Mindful accounting education
, 26

Misstatement
, 123

Modern auditing

fraud as qualitative judgment
, 182–183

immaterial change causing material impact
, 181–182

insight for
, 180

intentions and materiality
, 185

slippery slope of accepting inaccuracies
, 183–184

Moral agent, whistleblower as
, 79

Moral awareness/sensitivity
, 28

Moral character/action
, 28

Moral intent/motivation
, 28

Moral judgment
, 28

Moral leadership failures
, 150

Moral persistence
, 87

Moral rules
, 45

Moral virtues
, 40

Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ)
, 156

Multiple classification analysis (MCA)
, 159

Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA)
, 159

National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System
, 62

National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)
, 25

Neuro network analysis
, 151

New York Stock Exchange
, 62

Nicomachean Ethics
, 42

9-point scale
, 112–113

Non-earnings-management managers firms (NEM firms)
, 131

Non-EM manager samples identification
, 130–131, 146

Non-G-7 countries
, 194, 205

Normality
, 4, 24

Old Age and Survivor’s Insurance (OASI)
, 192–193

One-Time Request
, 4

Ordinary least squares regression models (OLS regression models)
, 62

Organizational culture impact on whistleblowing behavior
, 81

Parzen windows classifiers
, 160

Past hierarchical regression analysis
, 155

Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
, 48

Peer firm stock price
, 124

Personal career concerns
, 124

Phronesis
, 40, 42

Poor firm performance
, 126–127

Pornography
, 177

Potential financial rewards
, 122

Practical wisdom
, 40, 42–43, 53n3

accounting educators
, 40

case study
, 48–51

implementing GVV into accounting curriculum
, 51–52

practical wisdom
, 42–43, 44–45

soft skills importance in decision-making
, 41–42

soft skills management
, 44–45

tools for developing and building practical wisdom
, 45–48

Pre-fraud period F-score
, 131

Probabilistic neural networks (PNN)
, 155, 158, 159–160, 163–166

Probability density function (pdf)
, 160

Professional responsibilities
, 84

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
, 176

Purpose
, 4, 24

Rational decision process
, 79

Rationalizations
, 4

Reasons
, 4

for questionable practices
, 23

and rationalizations
, 24

Reflection
, 46

Relative performance evaluation (RPE)
, 124

industry-leader fraud and
, 125–126

Religion and business
, 178–180

Religiosity
, 179

Religious values
, 179

Repeated-measures ANOVA analysis
, 88

Rest’s four component model
, 28–29

Retaliation and negative consequences
, 81–84

Return on assets (ROA)
, 62, 64

Rights
, 199, 201

S&P 500 firms
, 58

Safeguards
, 78

Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX)
, 76, 79, 127

SASA Cosmos
, 112–113

Scripts
, 23

Self-control
, 42

Self-Employment Contributions Act
, 193

Self-image
, 4, 24

Self-knowledge
, 4, 24

Senior management
, 2

7-point Likert Scale
, 9

Shogayg
, 184

Slippery slope

of accepting inaccuracies
, 183–184

theme
, 176

Small Business Administration (SBA)
, 48–49

Social CSR
, 59

Soft skills
, 40

importance in decision-making
, 41–42

management
, 44–45

Stakeholder theory
, 58, 60, 198

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
, 129

Standard practice
, 4, 47, 50

Stock buybacks
, 58

Stock exchanges
, 58

Substance over form
, 185

Sunesis
, 44–45

Superior technical accounting skills
, 41

Supplemental analysis
, 94

Sustainalytics
, 64

Tax avoidance
, 122

Taxpayers
, 197

Teaching accounting ethics
, 22

Technical skills
, 40–41, 45

Top management
, 106, 110

Torah scroll
, 183, 185

Total assets
, 62, 64

Total CSR disclosure
, 62

Transformational leadership
, 151–153

behaviors
, 151

Trego Bikes and Trikes (TBT)
, 48

Trust
, 106

trust-violating communications
, 41

Unethical behavior
, 2

Unethical earnings management behavior
, 122

Unity
, 44

US firms
, 58

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
, 123, 128

Utilitarianism
, 199

Validation
, 163

Values
, 2, 4, 24

preferences and ethical decision-making studies
, 3–4

professional scepticism
, 95

values-based leadership
, 150–151

Virtue
, 43, 199

virtue-rules
, 45

Virtuous CFO
, 109

Virtuous practitioners
, 40

Voice
, 4, 24

Voicing values
, 24

Wells Fargo fraud case
, 181

Whistleblower Protection Act (1989)
, 76

Whistleblower’s dilemma

between-subjects design
, 87–88

between-subjects results
, 91–94

continuum model of impression formation
, 96

CPAs
, 95

data collection
, 85–86

demographics
, 86

eseential elements of research instruments
, 102–103

interview process
, 94–95

literature review
, 79

method
, 85

research design
, 86–87

results
, 88

supplemental analysis
, 94

view of whistleblower
, 81–84

whistleblower motivation
, 79–81

whistleblowing
, 76–77

within-subjects design
, 87

within-subjects results
, 88–91

Whistleblowing
, 76–77, 79

Wilcoxon Sign-Rank test
, 94

Within-subjects design
, 87

Worker benefits
, 205

Worker classification
, 192

ethical analysis
, 197–202

gig workers
, 195–196

global comparisons
, 194–195

importance
, 196–197

long-standing controversy
, 192–194

Workers’ compensation
, 192–193

Workplace
, 106

discrimination
, 82

environment perception
, 108–109

misconduct
, 1–2

XLSTAT
, 161

Yale School of Management
, 23