Teaching ethics through court judgments in Finance, Accounting, Economics and Business

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v11i1.1938

Emneord (Nøkkelord):

Ethics, court judgements, finance and accounting, economy, methodologies

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The current environment of business and financial corruption in Spain has increased in recent years. In order to reduce the scope of this problem, the Spanish Criminal Code (L.O. 1/2015) has introduced codes of conduct and ethics to encourage a new culture of respecting laws for companies and employees. An Educational Innovation Group at the University of Extremadura has proposed a cross-sectional model to study ethics, in an effort to address concerns about the consequences of illegal acts in society and companies. Students in Business, Finance and Accounting are required to practice ethical decision-making through court judgments in order to develop “ethical competences”. These competences are included in the European Higher Education Area and the Official University Education in Spain, specifically in the Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October through cross-sectional competences within the academic programmes. The results of the study show that a high percentage of students validate this methodology as a way of improving ethical decision-making skills at University that will be applied to future business practices.

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Rafael Robina Ramírez, University of Extremadura

Rafael Robina Ramirez

Master in Business Administration

Senior Lecturer at the Business and Sociology Department, University of Extremadura (Spain)

rrobina@unex.es

orcid.org/0000-0002-7117-8645

Research area: Ethics applied to teaching in Business, Finance and Economic

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2017-05-09

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