Abstract

Whistleblowing, which means exposing misconduct, alleged dishonest or illegal activity occurring in an organization, has recently become one of the highly disputed issues. When taking into consideration the legislations in Turkey, accountancy appears to be wide open to abuse. In this paper, we aim to carry out a survey to assess ideas of accountants on given scenarios in terms of their ethicalness. The results show that respondents finds the scenarios unethical, while they seem uncertain to expose misconduct, alleged dishonest or illegal activity occurring in their organizations in real life.