Abstract
In this study, in Istanbul province at Trade Vocational High School, High School, Associate Degree, Bachelor Degree, Graduate Degree levels, a research was carried out using questionnaire technique, one of the quantitative research method, to determine the professional ethical perceptions of candidate students of accountancy attending their education and training, and find out the occurrence levels and determine the state of having or not having ethics classes at education level before and for the time being, and review the relations between their ethical perceptions.
“Ethical Perception Scale Questionnaire”, developed by Sakarya and Kara (2010), consisting of a total of 25 statements 5 of which are sub-scale of such principles as Integrity, Objectivity, Professional Competence and Due Diligence, Confidentiality and Professional Conduct, was used as data collection tool. The data were collected from the participants within the framework of accounting professional ethics scale.
Independent Sampling T Test, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Pearson Correlation Analysis were used with IBM SPSS 25.0 program in determining the relations between the socio-demographic information of the participants. “LSD” Post-Hoc Tests were applied according to variance homogeneity hypothesis to find in which groups the differences are for significant results. At the end of the study, it is aimed to provide suggestions about what level the ethical perceptions of accounting profession candidates will see throughout their education life and how this will be managed, and to have a pathfinder property with the obtained results for various researchers setting out the data that will be achieved from the accounting profession candidates having education at different levels.