Determinants of academic cheating behavior: The future for accountancy in Ireland

J.A. Ballantine, P. McCourt Larres and M. Mulgrew

Accounting forum, 2014, vol. 38, issue 1, 55-66

Abstract: This paper considers the potential for improving the reputation of the Irish accountancy profession by exploring undergraduate accounting students’ intolerance of academic cheating as a predictor of future attitudes to unethical workplace practices. The study reports that females are significantly more intolerant of cheating than males. Further, with regard to ethical ideology, idealism was found to have a significant positive association with intolerance of cheating while relativism reported no association. It is anticipated that the growing admission of women to professional accountancy membership together with educational intervention to increase idealism may improve ethical attitudes and help restore the profession's reputation.

Keywords: Irish accountancy profession; Cheating behavior; Gender; Idealism; Relativism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2013.08.002

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