Dr Julie Bertz of DCU Business School reflects on a pay scandal at the Irish public broadcaster, and the importance of emphasising personal reflection in accounting education.
While some progress has been made on improving international ethical standards across the public finance sector there is still much to do, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
As austerity measures, commercialisation and rapid change force local government into difficult decisions, a strong code of conduct becomes ever more important, CIPFA’s Kim Woods writes.
CIPFA has issued a new statement of professional practice but local action is equally important in the fight against corruption, says the institutes’s Don Peebles.
Ethics are the building blocks of professional practice. With financial probity hitting the headlines, CIPFA surveyed hundreds of staff, and found some alarming results. Vivienne Russell reports....
Almost two thirds of finance professionals say they have come under pressure to act in an unethical way at some point in their careers, according to early findings from CIPFA’s ethics survey revealed...
Data intensive technology could aid policy for social good. But we need to resolve the ethical dilemmas as well as get the algorithms right, say the Alan Turing Institute’s Helen Margetts and Comina...
Councils and NHS trusts need to start grappling with their responsibilities under the Modern Slavery Act and ensure transparency and integrity in their supply chains, says Debbie Wood.
Trust and confidence in UK charities has recently fallen to its lowest level since monitoring began in 2005. Noel Hyndman and Danielle McConville of Queen’s University Belfast consider how this...
Rules on civil servants moving to posts in the private sector have been operating with no guidance on their use because the Cabinet Office has failed for five years to produce this, the National...
Candidates standing for election as police and crime commissioners should be asked to sign an “ethical checklist” to demonstrate their personal commitment to high standards, the public...
