Ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students

his paper has two main objectives. First, it intends to investigate the differences in ethical ideology between accountants and accounting students. Second, it aims to examine the differences in the ethical judgments in general situations and based on the legality of the situations between the two g...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ismail, Suhaiza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Malaya 2017
Subjects:
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/63220/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/63220/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/63220/1/JAPVOl10Issue1Ethics.pdf
id iium-63220
recordtype eprints
spelling iium-632202018-04-12T07:43:25Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/63220/ Ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students Ismail, Suhaiza H65 Schools. Institutes of social sciences his paper has two main objectives. First, it intends to investigate the differences in ethical ideology between accountants and accounting students. Second, it aims to examine the differences in the ethical judgments in general situations and based on the legality of the situations between the two groups. Using a questionnaire survey that comprises Ethical Position Questionnaire (EPQ) and ethical dilemma vignettes, a total of 617 usable responses were received comprising of 396 and 221 responses from accountants and accounting students respectively. In achieving the objectives, independent t-tests were also performed. The results reveal that there are significant differences in the idealism ethical ideology between accounting practitioners and accounting students. It is also discovered that there are significant differences in the ethical judgments between the two groups of respondents for overall vignettes as well as for illegal ethical vignettes. University of Malaya 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63220/1/JAPVOl10Issue1Ethics.pdf Ismail, Suhaiza (2017) Ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students. Asian Journal of Accounting Perspectives, 10. pp. 99-113. ISSN 0128-0384 https://ajap.um.edu.my/index.php/AJAP/article/view/11283/7685
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Local University
institution International Islamic University Malaysia
building IIUM Repository
collection Online Access
language English
topic H65 Schools. Institutes of social sciences
spellingShingle H65 Schools. Institutes of social sciences
Ismail, Suhaiza
Ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students
description his paper has two main objectives. First, it intends to investigate the differences in ethical ideology between accountants and accounting students. Second, it aims to examine the differences in the ethical judgments in general situations and based on the legality of the situations between the two groups. Using a questionnaire survey that comprises Ethical Position Questionnaire (EPQ) and ethical dilemma vignettes, a total of 617 usable responses were received comprising of 396 and 221 responses from accountants and accounting students respectively. In achieving the objectives, independent t-tests were also performed. The results reveal that there are significant differences in the idealism ethical ideology between accounting practitioners and accounting students. It is also discovered that there are significant differences in the ethical judgments between the two groups of respondents for overall vignettes as well as for illegal ethical vignettes.
format Article
author Ismail, Suhaiza
author_facet Ismail, Suhaiza
author_sort Ismail, Suhaiza
title Ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students
title_short Ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students
title_full Ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students
title_fullStr Ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students
title_full_unstemmed Ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students
title_sort ethical judgment and ethical ideology of accounting professionals and accounting students
publisher University of Malaya
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/63220/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/63220/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/63220/1/JAPVOl10Issue1Ethics.pdf
first_indexed 2023-09-18T21:29:40Z
last_indexed 2023-09-18T21:29:40Z
_version_ 1777412425995255808