Abstract
This dissertation empirically examined the impact of ethics instruction and ability on
students’ propensity to use professional judgment in resolving accounting ethics
dilemmas. The literature has supported the need for increased ethics instruction in
accounting programs as a vehicle to improve ethical decision making in the accounting
profession. The significance of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
(AICPA; 2004) Code of Professional Conduct as the profession’s source of authority
relative to ethical decision making was documented. The Code emphasizes three trust
characteristics (ability, benevolence, and integrity) identified in the literature that are
important relative to enhancing public trust in the accounting profession. Ability is
important to ethics instruction as it determines the extent to which students acquire a
working knowledge of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Provisions. The ethical
norms contained in the Code’s provisions are derived from the underlying ethical
decision-making characteristics inherent in the accounting profession’s organizational
culture. These ethical decision-making characteristics relate to an individual’s ethics
system, ethics application perspective, moral reasoning perspective, and level of moral
reasoning. The literature has supported a deontological ethics system, holistic ethics
application perspective, orthodox moral reasoning perspective, and conventional level of
moral reasoning as appropriate for ethical decision making in the accounting profession.
All of these ethical decision-making characteristics point to the use of professional
judgment rather than personal judgment in the resolution of accounting ethics dilemmas.
The primary goal of this dissertation was to obtain reliable data regarding the impact that
ethics instruction, in the form of a 4-hour ethics symposium concerning the provisions of
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the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, and level of ability have on accounting
students’ use of professional judgment. A demographic questionnaire and a
pretest/posttest, using the Index of Ethical Congruence, were administered to junior and
senior accounting students. The Wilcoxon T-test revealed that a statistically significant
difference existed in students’ use of professional judgment before and after exposure to
ethics instruction concerning the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. It also showed
that students with higher levels of ability demonstrated greater increases in the use of
professional judgment than students with lower levels of ability.
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Abstract
This dissertation empirically examined the impact of ethics instruction and ability on
students’ propensity to use professional judgment in resolving accounting ethics
dilemmas. The literature has supported the need for increased ethics instruction in
accounting programs as a vehicle to improve ethical decision making in the accounting
profession. The significance of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
(AICPA; 2004) Code of Professional Conduct as the profession’s source of authority
relative to ethical decision making was documented. The Code emphasizes three trust
characteristics (ability, benevolence, and integrity) identified in the literature that are
important relative to enhancing public trust in the accounting profession. Ability is
important to ethics instruction as it determines the extent to which students acquire a
working knowledge of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Provisions. The ethical
norms contained in the Code’s provisions are derived from the underlying ethical
decision-making characteristics inherent in the accounting profession’s organizational
culture. These ethical decision-making characteristics relate to an individual’s ethics
system, ethics application perspective, moral reasoning perspective, and level of moral
reasoning. The literature has supported a deontological ethics system, holistic ethics
application perspective, orthodox moral reasoning perspective, and conventional level of
moral reasoning as appropriate for ethical decision making in the accounting profession.
All of these ethical decision-making characteristics point to the use of professional
judgment rather than personal judgment in the resolution of accounting ethics dilemmas.
The primary goal of this dissertation was to obtain reliable data regarding the impact that
ethics instruction, in the form of a 4-hour ethics symposium concerning the provisions of
PREVIEWiv
the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, and level of ability have on accounting
students’ use of professional judgment. A demographic questionnaire and a
pretest/posttest, using the Index of Ethical Congruence, were administered to junior and
senior accounting students. The Wilcoxon T-test revealed that a statistically significant
difference existed in students’ use of professional judgment before and after exposure to
ethics instruction concerning the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. It also showed
that students with higher levels of ability demonstrated greater increases in the use of
professional judgment than students with lower levels of ability.
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Abstract
This dissertation empirically examined the impact of ethics instruction and ability on
students’ propensity to use professional judgment in resolving accounting ethics
dilemmas. The literature has supported the need for increased ethics instruction in
accounting programs as a vehicle to improve ethical decision making in the accounting
profession. The significance of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
(AICPA; 2004) Code of Professional Conduct as the profession’s source of authority
relative to ethical decision making was documented. The Code emphasizes three trust
characteristics (ability, benevolence, and integrity) identified in the literature that are
important relative to enhancing public trust in the accounting profession. Ability is
important to ethics instruction as it determines the extent to which students acquire a
working knowledge of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Provisions. The ethical
norms contained in the Code’s provisions are derived from the underlying ethical
decision-making characteristics inherent in the accounting profession’s organizational
culture. These ethical decision-making characteristics relate to an individual’s ethics
system, ethics application perspective, moral reasoning perspective, and level of moral
reasoning. The literature has supported a deontological ethics system, holistic ethics
application perspective, orthodox moral reasoning perspective, and conventional level of
moral reasoning as appropriate for ethical decision making in the accounting profession.
All of these ethical decision-making characteristics point to the use of professional
judgment rather than personal judgment in the resolution of accounting ethics dilemmas.
The primary goal of this dissertation was to obtain reliable data regarding the impact that
ethics instruction, in the form of a 4-hour ethics symposium concerning the provisions of
PREVIEWiv
the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, and level of ability have on accounting
students’ use of professional judgment. A demographic questionnaire and a
pretest/posttest, using the Index of Ethical Congruence, were administered to junior and
senior accounting students. The Wilcoxon T-test revealed that a statistically significant
difference existed in students’ use of professional judgment before and after exposure to
ethics instruction concerning the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. It also showed
that students with higher levels of ability demonstrated greater increases in the use of
professional judgment than students with lower levels of ability.
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