The Evaluation of Fraud Attitudes and Reporting Tendencies of Professional Accountants, Accounting Staff and Professional Candidates’: Yozgat Case

The aim of this study is to examine the differences in the ethical attitudes and reporting tendencies of accounting professionals, accounting staff and business students against the intended fraud scenarios. Within this framework, survey method was applied in the study. The analysis have been performed in consideration of data belongs to total 282 respondents and one-way manova and correlation analysis methods were used. Obtained results show that there are significant differences with regards to ethical attitudes and reporting tendencies in terms of the three participant groups. These differences have been identified in the participant groups, gender and academic grade point average. It has also been observed that there is a significant relationship between ethical attitude and reporting tendency in the study