关键词:
Accounting
摘要:
The ethical development of future accounting professionals and accountants in the early stages of their career is of paramount importance for the future ethical integrity of the accounting profession and the business world (Duska, Duska, & Ragatz, 2011). The highly visible ethical failures of some accountants and business professionals in recent years have been accompanied by increased regulatory activity and government oversight, as well as calls for a renewed level of attention to ethics education and ethical training for young accounting and business professionals (West, 2018). In the present study, the researcher sought to extend the relevant body of knowledge relating to the factors that influence the ethical development of accounting and non-accounting business students by examining the impact of level of education, completion of an ethics course, completion of a religion course, major area of study, level of religiosity, and student gender on the ethical development of undergraduate accounting and non-accounting business students at a private historically church-affiliated university. The researcher found that major area of study had a material impact on the ethical development of undergraduate accounting and non-accounting business administration students, while level of education, completion of ethics course, completion of a religion course, level of religiosity, and student gender did not have a material impact.