Ethics and Role of Accountants

Abstract

The role of accountants in adhering to ethics was addressed in this paper. Accountants face a number of challenges in the course of carrying out their roles and obligations. Questionnaires were used to elite responses from respondents and the Chi-Square statistic was used to analyse the data collected. It was found that the role of the accountants is dependent on the ethics of the accounting profession.

Keywords: Ethics, Code of conduct, Accounting profession.