Outstanding Educators Are Recipients of the Excellence in Accounting Ethics Education Award
The Public Interest, Ethics and Sustainability Section of the American Accounting Association has selected three academics for its 2026 Award, “Excellence in Accounting Ethics Education” including Scott C. Jackson from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Paul E. Ordyna, from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Srinivasan C. Ragothaman from the University of South Dakota. They published a paper in the November 2025 Issues in Accounting Education titled “A COVID-19-Related Fraud at Applied BioSciences Corp. What Are the Lessons?” The case presents a real-world Covid-19 fraud scheme that enables students to apply ethical reasoning, analyze fraud risks, and critically assess corporate governance failures. The case develops a useful approach to ethics education for other potential public health outbreaks like the COVID Variant Called ‘Cicada’ or the measles. Moreover, all of us, including our students, have lived through Covid and should find the case a good platform to evaluate social responsibility and what is in the public interest.
Find out more about the award by contacting Steven Mintz at smintz@calpoly.edu.
Posted April 21, 2026, by Steven Mintz, PhD, Professor Emeritus from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Find out more about Steve’s activities by visiting his website.