Journal of Economics, Business, & Accountancy Ventura
Vol. 15 No. 2 (2012): August 2012

THE PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT OF AUDIT VERSUS CORPORATION ON ACCOUNTING STUDENTS MORAL CONSIDERATION

Agustina, Lidya (Unknown)
Dwi KS, Christine (Unknown)
Tin, Setyo (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2012

Abstract

There have been some studies related to the moral consideration by the students of accountingor auditors as well. For that reason, some factors affecting the decision making by thisprofession is important to be studied. This study investigates whether the professional contextof accounting ethical dilemmas influences accounting students’ moral reasoning. In betweensubjects experiment, 110 accounting students from a private-accredited university in Bandung,responded to ethical dilemmas faced by either auditors or corporate accountants designedto measure their deliberative moral reasoning. As expected, students in the audit conditionexhibited significantly higher deliberative moral reasoning than students in the corporateaccounting condition. This result are consistent with accounting students having moreaudit based ethical knowledge structures which do not flexibly transfer to resolving ethicalissues in the corporate accounting context.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jebav

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Journal of Economics, Business and Accountancy (JEBAV) addresses economics, business, banking, management and accounting issues that are new developments in business excellence and best practices, and methodologies to determine these in manufacturing and financial service organisations. It considers ...