Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems (JAMIS)


PERCEPTIONS OF ROMANIAN & TURKISH BUSINESS STUDENTS ON ACCOUNTING AND MARKETING ETHICS

25/2008 ,   p109..126

Author(s):  
Miruna-Lucia NACHESCU
Burak ARZOVA
Mert UYDACI


Keywords:   Accounting ethics, marketing ethics, cultural backgrounds

Abstract:  

The aim of this study is to analyze the similarities and differences on the attitudes of accounting and marketing students as prospective business professionals, towards 6 ethical dilemmas from each discipline. This study is conducted at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey and at West University in Timisoara, Romania, in an attempt to see the way accounting students perceive marketing dilemmas and how marketing students perceive accounting dilemmas. Although both accounting and marketing students are approximately taking the same courses before their final year and they will work together at businesses in different departments, their perceptions from the view angle of the others are considered important. A 12-item Likert Scale is used to gather the data from both accounting and marketing students to shed some light on their attitudes towards accounting ethics. Considering the different curriculum, different professional ethical understandings, the views of students from two disciplines have been examined in this paper. Similarities and differences have been discussed in the view of Turkish and Romanian cultural backgrounds and interdisciplinary ethical structure. The cultural, social and economic similarities between Romania and Turkey make the study more meaningful than other studies.



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