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Ethical Dilemmas and Decision Making in Accounting

In: Corporate Governance

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  • Arzu Ozsozgun Caliskan

    (Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences)

  • Halil Emre Akbas

    (Yildiz Technical University)

  • Emel Esen

    (Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences)

Abstract

Accountants have a crucial role to play in today’s global business life as they are key providers of financial information to investors, lenders and other stakeholders of companies. They are expected to maintain records of reliable and trustworthy information and also to behave in responsibly while carrying out their professional duties. On another hand, the recent financial reporting scandals indicate that like other professions, accountants also can face ethical dilemmas and behave unethically (which has resulted in the loss of reputation for some accountants and almost damaged the profession to a serious extent). Another issue is decision making in accounting which has some ethical dilemmas, a situation requiring more than just technical competence. For this reason, an understanding of the ethical decision making environment in which accountants function is important. In this study, the importance of ethics in the area of accounting, the ethical dilemmas and ethical decision making process which accountants confront are discussed extensively in order to enable our readers to understand the issues and suggest responsible solutions for dealing with them.

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  • Arzu Ozsozgun Caliskan & Halil Emre Akbas & Emel Esen, 2014. "Ethical Dilemmas and Decision Making in Accounting," Springer Books, in: Samuel O Idowu & Kiymet Tunca Çaliyurt (ed.), Corporate Governance, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 241-252, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-45167-6_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45167-6_13
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    1. Ralph Adler & Gregory Liyanarachchi, 2020. "Towards measuring professionalism in accounting," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 60(3), pages 1907-1941, September.

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