THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ON THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY
Two decades of financial scandals have seriously damaged the credibility of accountants as guardians of financial information. To repair this credibility, the Malaysian government released a blueprint that mandated Malaysian educational institutions to produce morally competent professionals. Thi...
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| description | Two decades of financial scandals have seriously damaged the credibility of accountants as
guardians of financial information. To repair this credibility, the Malaysian government
released a blueprint that mandated Malaysian educational institutions to produce morally
competent professionals. This study assessed the progress of Malaysian universities in
meeting this important mandate by evaluating the moral development of accounting students
enrolled at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The results of the survey
revealed that there was so significant difference in the moral competencies of 2nd-year and
final-year accounting students at IIUM. The implication of this result is that IIUM's current
crop of final-year accounting students were not morally competent enough to deal with the
inevitable moral dilemmas they would face in the work place. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-39b596398baf465b84f8976cd50b9acf2023-02-15T16:08:01ZengInformascopeInternational Online Journal of Education and Teaching2148-225X2148-225X2016-04-0132THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ON THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS: A CASE STUDYUmaru Zubairu0Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Studies, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria.Two decades of financial scandals have seriously damaged the credibility of accountants as guardians of financial information. To repair this credibility, the Malaysian government released a blueprint that mandated Malaysian educational institutions to produce morally competent professionals. This study assessed the progress of Malaysian universities in meeting this important mandate by evaluating the moral development of accounting students enrolled at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The results of the survey revealed that there was so significant difference in the moral competencies of 2nd-year and final-year accounting students at IIUM. The implication of this result is that IIUM's current crop of final-year accounting students were not morally competent enough to deal with the inevitable moral dilemmas they would face in the work place.http://iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/120/132moral competenceuniversity educationaccounting students |
| spellingShingle | Umaru Zubairu THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ON THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY International Online Journal of Education and Teaching moral competence university education accounting students |
| title | THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ON THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY |
| title_full | THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ON THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY |
| title_fullStr | THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ON THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY |
| title_full_unstemmed | THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ON THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY |
| title_short | THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ON THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY |
| title_sort | impact of university education on the moral development of accounting students a case study |
| topic | moral competence university education accounting students |
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