Ethical Obligations and Decision-Making in Accounting: Text and Cases

About the Author

Steven Mintz

Steven M. Mintz, DBA, CPA, is a professor of accounting in the Orfalea College of Business at the California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obsipo. Dr. Mintz received his DBA from George Washington University. His first book, titled Cases in Accounting Ethics and Professionalism, was also published by McGraw-Hill. Dr. Mintz has recently been acknowledged by accounting researchers as one of the top publishers in accounting ethics and in accounting education. He was selected for the 2014 Max Block Distinguished Article Award in the "Technical Analysis" category by The CPA Journal. Dr. Mintz received the 2015 Accounting Exemplar Award of the Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association. He also has received the Faculty Excellence Award of the California Society of CPAs. Dr. Mintz writes two popular ethics blogs under the names “Ethics Sage” and “Workplace Ethics Advice.”

William Miller

William F. Miller, EdD, CPA, CGMA, is a professor of accounting in the Accounting and Finance Department at the College of Business, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Dr. Miller received his EdD from the University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota. He also has over 23 years of professional accounting experience and maintains an active consulting practice. He has authored or co-authored over 20 publications, including a book on Giving Voice to Values in Accounting, and has won the Institute of Management Accountants Carl Menconi Ethics Case writing competition three times (2011, 2012, and 2015), and won the American Accounting Association’s Public Interest Section best contribution to teaching award in 2015.