Alberto J. Costa holds a Doctorate in Accounting from the joint doctoral program between the University of Aveiro and the University of Minho, Master in Business Sciences (with a specialization in Accounting) from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and a Degree in Accounting and Auditing from ISCA-UA. He is a Full Researcher at GOVCOPP (Research Unit in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy), in the research group on Decision Support Systems. He has been Director of the Master in Accounting and Management Control (ISCA-UA) since 2019 and has been part of several working committees at ISCA-UA. He has supervised and co-supervised Doctoral Theses and Master's Dissertations, some of which have been presented at national and international conferences, having given rise to publications in specialized journals. He develops research in the area of ​​Financial Accounting and, particularly, in the area of ​​Accounting and Business Ethics and in the area of ​​Management Accounting. He has published papers in national and international journals and is a regular reviewer of scientific journals, scientific events and book chapters. He was also editor of two books in the field of Accounting Ethics Educa