Our center's mission is to encourage the ethical behavior of accounting professionals and organizational managers and to promote the accounting profession’s responsibility to serve the public interest.

We strive to achieve our mission through education, scholarship, and interaction with the professional, business, and academic communities.

The Distinguished Speaker Series will continue in spring 2010.
Please check back later for more information. 

The Center for Accounting Ethics, Governance, and the Public Interest’s Distinguished Speakers Series most recent event was a visit and presentation by Charles A. Bowsher entitled, “The Banking Crisis, Debt, and Ethics.” Bowsher had a 15-year term as the comptroller general of the United States and head of the General Accounting Office (GAO), a 21-year association with Arthur Andersen & Co., and served as assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management for four years. For more information and videos about Mr. Bowsher and other  past speakers in the Distinguished Speaker Series, follow the Distinguished Speaker Series link on the top left-hand part of this page.