The Ethics Interview: Can a Single Interview Exercise Help Students Experience the Benefits of Professional Engagement?

ABSTRACT Professional engagement helps students develop professional judgment, connect their coursework to the “real world,” and explore accounting-related careers. Internships often provide a route these benefits, but some cannot complete internships. The Pathways Commission calls for new, creative approaches engagement. In ethics interview exercise, engage with professionals single interview. Following intentional learning model, activities before after They select interviewee, prepare questions about topics of personal interest, organize conduct interview, reflect on experience. We implemented exercise in different accounting courses at universities United States Bolivia, using both face-to-face virtual interviews. applied principles phenomenology assessment. Results indicate experience benefits requires little modification existing can be modified support varied goals.