Accounting for the Public Interest

<p>Table of Contents</p><p>Introduction</p><p>List of Contributors</p><p>List of Reviewers</p><p>Monograph Papers</p><p>Section 1:         Professionalism in Accounting: Myth or Reality?</p><p>Chapter 1:        Call of Duty: A Framework for Auditors’ Ethical Decisions by Michael K. Shaub and Robert L. Braun</p><p>Chapter 2:        Professionalizing the Tax Accounting Profession: Fulfilling Public-Interest Reporting Responsibilities by Martin Stuebs and Brett Wilkinson</p><p>Chapter 3:        The Bloom is Off the Rose: Deprofessionaliztion in Public Accounting by Timothy J. Fogarty </p><p>Section 2:         An Ethic of Accountability, Societal Responsibilities, and Accounting for the Public Interest</p><p>Chapter 4:        Taking Pluralism Seriously Within an Ethic of Accountability by Jesse Dillard and Judy Brown</p><p>Chapter 5:        Social and Economic Implications of Increasing Income Inequality: Accountability Concerns by Sue Ravenscroft and Christine A. Denison</p><p>Chapter 6:        Professionalism, the Public Interest, and Social Accounting by Gordon Boyce</p><p>Section 3:         Defining the Public Interest in Accounting</p><p>Chapter 7:        Alternative Perspectives on Accounting in the Public Interest by C. Richard Baker</p><p>Chapter 8:        The Public Interest According to the IFAC Framework by Paul F. Williams</p><p>Section 4:         Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Reporting</p><p>Chapter 9:        Developing Corporate Reporting in the Public Interest: The Question of Mandatory CSR Reporting and the Potential for Its Integration with Financial Reporting by Cynthia Jeffrey and Jon D. Perkins</p><p>Chapter 10:      Environmental Disclosure as Legitimation: Is it in the Public Interest? by Dennis M. Patten</p><p>Section 5:         Virtue and Public Interest Considerations of Bribery and Whistle-blowing</p><p>Chapter 11:      Facilitation Payments in International Business Transactions: Law, Accounting and the Public Interest by Cindy Davids</p><p>Chapter 12:      Whistle-blowing in the Classroom: The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Whistleblowers</p><p>