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Loyola Marymount endows accounting ethics chair. (Education).


R. Chad Dreier, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of The Ryland Group, recently pledged $3.5 million to endow an accounting ethics chair at Loyola Marymount University Marymount University is a coeducational, four-year Catholic university whose main campus is located in Arlington, Virginia. History
Marymount was founded in 1950 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM) as Marymount College, a two-year women's school.
 in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. .

The gift would make the university one of the few schools in the nation to create a chair placing ethics at the fore (Naut.) at the fore royal masthead; - said of a flag, so raised as a signal for sailing, etc.

See also: Fore
 of accounting education.

Top among the chair's objectives will be to dispel a prominent business school attitude that the bottom line is all that matters and to strengthen student understanding of real-world ethical dilemmas by teaching them the basic skills that are used in resolving these issues.
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Date:May 1, 2003
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