Professional Ethics in Accounting Curriculum at a Vietnamese University

Nguyen Trung

International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2016, vol. 3, issue 4, 261-271

Abstract: Accounting faculty of universities in Vietnam currently takes an important role in the training of human resources for the fields of accounting, auditing and taxation. All professors and lecturers who are teaching in those faculties have participated in editing and changing the accounting curricular in order to meet the needs of the market labor and requirements of new internationally professional standards. The integration of professional ethics into the curriculum has raised the concern of many universities not only in Vietnam but also in the world. This paper will present how to integrate professional ethics into the curricula in teaching and learning by Faculty of Accounting and Auditing of Banking University of HCMC. The results of the study will highlight some recommendations for improving the contents of courses used for the teaching and learning accounting effectively. The research is presented in this paper as follows: a short literature review and then the methodology of interviewing the professors in accounting fields who have the best experiences in education of accounting. Also, students who are studying accounting course will be interviewed. In addition to, content Analysis research methods and a case study approach are used to investigate the whether it is necessary for teaching and learning of Professional Ethics in accounting at Banking University of HCMC. The paper aims to answer the following questions: (i) Should ethics be taught in accounting classes at universities? (ii) How professional ethics has been taught and learned: as a separate course or integration into different accounting and auditing courses?.

Keywords: Professional Ethics; accounting curriculum (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.ijmae.com/article_115284_3768015ca755df9e84bbcef37398ad92.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:air:journl:v:3:y:2016:i:4:p:261

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17422672

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics from International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dr. Behzad Hassannezhad Kashani ().