Identify and compare the professional ethical rules and legal rules regulating the profession of accounting

Identify and compare the professional ethical rules and legal rules regulating the profession of accounting. Opine on ways in which your own personal ethics may differ from the professional rules and legal rules governing accounting. What are some common ethical dilemmas you are likely to encounter in your chosen field?

Compare and contrast the concepts of dignity, equity, fairness, and diversity from both a secular and biblical standpoint.

Identify ways in which you had incorporated the Six Pillars of Character, and then discuss any deficiencies you see in the six pillars or your plan.

Describe Rest’s Four-Component Model of Ethical Decision Making.

Incorporate Rest’s Four-Component Model when discussing solving ethical dilemmas in your professional career.

Identify at least three key professional ethical or regulation issues for accountants. Reflect on how these issues might arise in your professional career and how this ethical plan will help you respond appropriately. (The issues you identify will come from textbook reading or research.)

Identify 10 principles (five professional and five personal) that will govern what you will and will not do and serve as your ethical development plan. (You are encouraged to develop your own principles. If you adopt one or more principles from the textbook or other research, you need to explain why you adopted the principle and provide the proper citation.

Next steps:

How will you use your ethical development plan to respond to the key ethical or regulation issues for accountants?

How will you use your ethical development plan better align your faith and actions with the concepts of dignity, equity, fairness, and diversity?

How will you use your ethical development plan to strengthen any deficiencies of your character?