Empirical Analysis of Ethics Integration and Online Learning in Auditing Course on Ethical Decision Making: Further Evidence from Indonesia

Journal of Advanced Research in Business, Management, and Accounting, Volume-1, Issue-1, March 2015

24 Pages Posted: 11 Sep 2017 Last revised: 25 Jan 2021

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Diah Hari Suryaningrum

Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur

Bambang Subroto

University of Brawijaya

Sutrisno T

University of Brawijaya

Aulia Rahman

University of Brawijaya

Date Written: March 2, 2015

Abstract

Whether ethics should be taught and how it should be taught has been questioned by accounting professionals, researchers, and teachers. This experimental study attempts to answer the question and gives further evidence of the beneficial impact of teaching ethics. Participants are sixty students of professional accounting program in the first semester. Ethical decision making was measured using multidimensional ethical scale (MES) that has been used to measure attitudes related to justice, relativism, egoism, contractualism, and utility. MES also allows participants to provide explanation for their moral orientation in making decision. We also construct a ratio scale of participants’ confidence to measure ethical decision making. The scales are from 10 to 100 percent to answer question whether they believe that decision made was an ethical decision. Using 2x2 factorial experimental design and analysis of variance, this study proved that interaction of ethics integration and learning method of online technology has positive impact on participants’ moral orientation. On the contrary, participants’ confidence level in making ethical decision is not related to ethics integration, but influenced by ethics integration and learning methods. These results indicate that ethics teaching can influence character and ability of participants’ moral orientation, but when making ethical decision, their confidence level in making ethical decision depend on circumstances faced.

Keywords: ethics integration, online learning, multidimensional ethical scale, ethical decision making

JEL Classification: M41, M42, M49

Suggested Citation

Suryaningrum, Diah Hari and Subroto, Bambang and T, Sutrisno and Rahman, Aulia, Empirical Analysis of Ethics Integration and Online Learning in Auditing Course on Ethical Decision Making: Further Evidence from Indonesia (March 2, 2015). Journal of Advanced Research in Business, Management, and Accounting, Volume-1, Issue-1, March 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3031194

Diah Hari Suryaningrum (Contact Author)

Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur ( email )

Jl. Raya Rungkut Madya
Rungkuy
Surabaya, Jawa Timur 60293
Indonesia

Bambang Subroto

University of Brawijaya ( email )

MT. Haryono 165
Jalan Veteran, Malang, Jawa Timur 65145, Indonesia
Malang, IN East Java 65145
Indonesia

Sutrisno T

University of Brawijaya ( email )

MT. Haryono 165
Jalan Veteran, Malang, Jawa Timur 65145, Indonesia
Malang, IN East Java 65145
Indonesia

Aulia Rahman

University of Brawijaya ( email )

MT. Haryono 165
Jalan Veteran, Malang, Jawa Timur 65145, Indonesia
Malang, IN East Java 65145
Indonesia

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