ETHICAL DECISION MAKING IN ACCOUNTING

ACCT 642

Ethical Decision Making In Accounting Assignment Instructions

Overview

Using the electronic databases provided by the Liberty University Online Library and other sources, search for journal articles in professional peer-reviewed accounting, ethics, and business journals that pertain to Ethical Decision Making In The Accounting Profession—Cognitive Process. You may also use scholarly books written on ethical decision making models, and moral and behavior reasoning.

Instructions

After you have researched the ethical decision making models, the cognitive process, and moral and behavior reasoning, write a research paper in current APA format. You must include the following core components in your research paper:

Describe in detail the Kohlberg and Cognitive Development Approach and Rest’s Four Companies Model of Ethical Decision Making using professional literature, textbooks, and course presentations. It is possible that a particular journal article could address both theories.

Evaluate each theory with respect to the following:

· Organizational culture of the accounting profession

· AICPA Code of Professional Conduct

· Present logical and thorough arguments, supported by scholarly sources, textbooks and course presentations, and the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct to defend the cognitive and morals you believe is most appropriate for the accounting profession.

· Biblical Worldwide View

Be sure to include a title page, outline, and a reference page in addition to your essay pages. The title page, outline, and reference page DO NOT count as part of the 10–15-page length requirement. Items to include are outlined as follows:

· Length of assignment: 10 -15 full pages (page numbers, word count, slide number, video length, etc.)

· Include title page and reference section. This information is not included as a part of the page count,

· Format of assignment: APA

· No more than 25% citations

· At least 5–7 different peer-reviewed accounting, scholarly articles and business journals published within the last five years.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool. The tool is a starting point for instructors to check overall Academic Integrity and higher scores generally indicate a higher probability of Academic Misconduct. The higher a score, the higher the probability that there are too many quotations included in the narrative, and/or there are passages that have not been properly cited.