When the vignettes are separated into illegal and legal situations, the results appear to be similar. Gender, professional qualifications and rules conformance remain insignificant in both models. Age and understanding of the professional code of conduct are statistically significant at the 1 percent and (marginally) 10 percent levels respectively in both models. The only inconsistent results are regarding corporate ethics scale which is statistically significant at the 5 percent level in the illegal vignettes but only marginally significant at the 10 percent level in the legal vignettes, active involvement in the profession activities which is significant at the 5 percent level in the illegal vignettes but more significant at the 1 percent level in the legal vignettes and ethics instruction received which is not significant in the illegal vignettes but marginally significant at the 10 percent level in the legal vignettes. It would appear that ethics instruction received may have some positive impact on ethical judgments only in legal situations. Overall, it may be concluded that factors influencing accountants’ ethical judgments are not dependent upon the legality of the situations.