“…Murphy and O'Connell (2017) made a similar observation and coined this the dominance of 'accounting formalism', which neglects 'the social, critical and ethical dimension' (Murphy & O'Connell, 2017, p. 1). The dominance of the technical over the ethical aspects of accounting education have led prior research to call for the adoption of more ethical theory, dilemmas, questions and ethical considerations in accounting education (Amernic & Craig, 2004;Boyce, 2004Boyce, , 2008Carmona, 2013;Chabrak & Craig, 2013;Hopper, 2013;Merino, 2006;Murphy & O'Connell, 2017;Saravanamuthu & Tinker, 2002, 2008Sikka et al, 2007). Much is yet to be done, however, especially in the field of MA, as the majority of the above-mentioned papers seem to address other fields of accounting than MA, as noted by Sikka et al (2007, p. 13):…”