Ethical Issues The phrase “professional ethics” is stated as a meaning of morality. Morality to the business world suggests how one should behave toward oneself and toward other individuals: whether to be friendly or unfriendly or whether to be generous or greedy. These, and other questions dealt with in a field of study are called Professional Ethics. This paper’s intent is to enlighten the public’s perception of CPAs in today's society. It will …showed first 75 words of 831 total…

…showed last 75 words of 831 total…to become an AICPA member to practice public accounting or to be a CPA, but there are several problems with this. Primarily, students (or parents) are harmed the most, who must cough up another $10,000 or $20,000 for a fifth year of education. Then there is the added cost of not having a job for the extra year it will take to complete the fifth year, so there is another $25,000 - $30,000. This is not the only problem.