Ética: Percepção dos profissionais contábeis de Santana do Ipanema

Abstract

The main objective of this project is to identify the perception of accounting professionals about the professional ethics applied to the exercise of the profession of accountant. It is about advising how important accounting professionals find professional ethics to be. In order to reach the proposed objective, a quantitative methodology was used, with data collected through a questionnaire, aiming to put into dialogue the evaluation and opinion of accountants already graduated from the city of Santana do lpanema / AL. In this context, it is verified how accounting professionals value the ethical precepts applied to the exercise of the profession of Accountant. The importance of the work lies in discussing the role of ethics in their professional activities. The results achieved indicate that professionals value professional ethics, although they report that it is not easy to exercise ethics in the accounting profession. Although the results found were satisfactory, this research can be replicated to reach more professionals from other municipalities, thus bringing more concrete and broad information, since the size of the sample makes it impossible to generalize the findings.