Ethics Study in Professional and Vocational Education: Voices from Practitioners

Rachel Wai-Yi Cheung∗
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Rachel Wai-Yi Cheung∗: Macau Institute of Management, Macao, China

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2020, vol. 6, issue 2, 63-68

Abstract: Higher education vocational institutions train professional applied talents and accounting study is one of those vocational studies. A survey was conducted in Hong Kong and views collected from the responding practitioners on whether they agreed with the inclusion of an accountant’s involvement in ethics education could benefit accounting students, meanwhile, their views on additional ethics elements required for our current ethics education. We found that a majority (82.3%) of total respondents (N = 164) answered positively that the inclusion of an accountant’s involvement in ethics education could benefit students. In addition, age and gender do make a difference in their answers while their working location do not affect much of their answers. Practitioners voiced out that practical work experience, for example, internship is more important than knowledge learnt. The views from the responding vocational practitioners reveal that boarder ethics elements of accounting education are expected to be included in our current curriculum.

Keywords: Accounting; ethics; learning & teaching; internship; vocational; Greater Bay Area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.6.20001-2

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