So, according to authors of accounting academics the reasons
behind why the teaching of ethics were not included in their
teaching are that the logistical problem of providing adequate teaching, and fitting it into the accounting curriculum which implies lack of fervor and veiled antagonism towards the whole idea and the other reason says that the students negative attitude towards the teaching of ethics that the teaching faculty is lacking responsibility for encouraging the students and building up their interest in it. Now coming to accounting practitioners 55.5% of them slightly agree that there should be the teaching of ethics in accounting as they disagreed that the accounting lecturers have helped neither to solve moral or ethical dilemmas or to confront them and from 55%, 20% believe that the individual cannot learn ethical behavior and professionalism inside a class room which at some point is true also because only a theoretical knowledge is not sufficient for learning ethics. Another 22.5% disagreeing with the view that all the accounting faculties are not qualified to teach ethics can also be true. But apart from that other practitioners disagreeing with the view of keeping ethics in accounting as an important curriculum is absolutely wrong. Lastly covering the student’s point of view we found out that the students with strong academics and the ones who actually understood the business are in support of teaching of ethics in accounting. We as a group criticize the skeptics what they are saying because ethics has an equally important role in accounting profession as much as in other profession such as in the field of auditing it should not be based on just personal judgment. Accountants are expected to act ethically when the book of clients is handled by them. They are expected to meet the ethical standards and principal with company as well as with the clients. The ethical standards and principal are important because in accounting we will be dealing with sensitive information that is financial assets of the company. When there is a lack in ethics it may lead to struggle to stay afloat, the company will be facing trouble retaining employees and must face a serious legal issues. The ethical principal and standards helps accounting professional to take the right decision as they are frequently facing different challenges.
(the skeptics tend to be those who have
little or no experience of studying or teaching the subject, or have simply not given it much thought.)