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2002

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Business

The University of San Francisco

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An Exploration Of Values And Ethical Choices Of Accounting Students, John Koeplin Jan 2002

An Exploration Of Values And Ethical Choices Of Accounting Students, John Koeplin

Accounting

An individual’s ethical and economic values impact his decision processes when faced with resolving certain dilemmas. The primary issue of this research is to examine the relationship between accounting students’ ethical and economic values and their responses to business dilemmas. Additionally, this study attempted to see if senior accounting students responded with more ethical responses to the dilemmas than did lower-division accounting students.

A measure of ethicality proposed by McCarthy (1997) was compared with subjects’ ethical responses to the business dilemmas. No correlation between the students’ measure of ethicality and the number of ethical responses to business dilemmas was found. …