Attitudes of accounting professions and businesses about ethics: Turkey case

Attitudes of accounting professions and businesses about ethics: Turkey case

Acting ethically, professionals make important contributions to profession s prestige andservice quality, causing individuals and institutions to bring the ethical values to the fore andprofessional organizations to enforce regulations in this regard. In this context, the Union of CertifiedPublic Accountants and Sworn-in Certified Public Accountants of Turkey sets up the principles ofethics for its members. In this study, how these regulations are perceived by accounting professionals and businesses that get service from accounting professionals in Turkey is investigated. Two questionnaires prepared for this aim were applied in randomly selected provinces in Turkey. Descriptive statistics and independent group t tests were applied to detect differences between groups. The results show although differences were determined for some of the expressions between the two groups, in general, accounting professionals and businesses expressed their attitude towardsparticipation to the principles of ethics determined as honesty, objectivity, professional competenceand care, confidentiality and professional behavior by the Union.

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