Core Values and Assumptions

Educational Innovation

• Support all forms of innovation including appreciation for the historical and current role of organizational management, accounting, and the accounting profession.
• Ability to envision opportunities for socially responsible and responsive development, especially in the areas of integrity and accountability

Scholarly Investigation

• Bring together the expertise of faculty, students and community to identify and consider the critical public interest issues facing accounting and organizational management.
• Study accounting, the accounting profession, accounting professionals, and accounting systems within their economic, political, social, ecological, and organizational context.

Community Interaction

• Serve as a focal point for inclusive, enlightened, and sustained discourse in the Metro/Regional community
• Explore the accounting profession and organizational management’s public interest role consistent with the core values
• Envision opportunities for socially responsible and responsive action consistent with the core values