The current study investigates how a university accounting education
affects the rationales used by accounting and first-year business students in making
ethical decisions, the level of deliberative reasoning they employ, and their ethical
decisions. Senior accounting students (with approximately four accounting courses to
complete) were found to exhibit higher deliberative reasoning, make more frequent use
of post-conventional modes of deliberative reasoning, and make more ethical decisions
than first-year accounting students. These results suggest that a university accounting
education has a positive effect on deliberative reasoning, on the use of post-conventional
modes of deliberative reasoning, and on ethical decisions. There was no difference
between the level of deliberative reasoning and ethical decisions of first-year accounting
and first-year business students, but there were differences in their modes of deliberative
reasoning. These results suggest that first-year accounting and first-year business
students may make ethical decisions differently, implying the need for a different
emphasis when teaching ethics to these two groups of students.
The current study investigates how a university accounting education
affects the rationales used by accounting and first-year business students in making
ethical decisions, the level of deliberative reasoning they employ, and their ethical
decisions. Senior accounting students (with approximately four accounting courses to
complete) were found to exhibit higher deliberative reasoning, make more frequent use
of post-conventional modes of deliberative reasoning, and make more ethical decisions
than first-year accounting students. These results suggest that a university accounting
education has a positive effect on deliberative reasoning, on the use of post-conventional
modes of deliberative reasoning, and on ethical decisions. There was no difference
between the level of deliberative reasoning and ethical decisions of first-year accounting
and first-year business students, but there were differences in their modes of deliberative
reasoning. These results suggest that first-year accounting and first-year business
students may make ethical decisions differently, implying the need for a different
emphasis when teaching ethics to these two groups of students.
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