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Sustainability, Ethics and Education: What's Accounting Got to Do with It?

Sustainability, Ethics and Education: What's Accounting Got to Do with It?

Tehmina Khan
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466681958|ISBN10: 1466681950|EISBN13: 9781466681965
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8195-8.ch049
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Khan, Tehmina. "Sustainability, Ethics and Education: What's Accounting Got to Do with It?." Business Law and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 978-995. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8195-8.ch049

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Khan, T. (2015). Sustainability, Ethics and Education: What's Accounting Got to Do with It?. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Business Law and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 978-995). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8195-8.ch049

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Khan, Tehmina. "Sustainability, Ethics and Education: What's Accounting Got to Do with It?." In Business Law and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 978-995. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8195-8.ch049

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Abstract

Accounting education has faced limitations as a highly technical and discipline-specific body of knowledge. The case presented in this chapter demonstrates and reflects on an attempt at incorporating the study of sustainability-related accounting knowledge through multiple forms of delivery and assessment. Sustainability-related material that draws from business, accounting and ethics' perspectives was included in an accounting ethics course for accounting majors at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia. This pedagogy has encouraged the development of students' soft skills including their emotional intelligence. Sustainability education has been found as engaging and thought provoking, albeit involving a steep learning curve for students as far as knowledge and awareness are concerned. It has allowed for the promotion of multiple and broader perspectives and education on key sustainability-related concerns, from a range of angles including ethics and accounting frameworks for sustainability as well as multidisciplinary approaches to sustainability and business.

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