International Research Journal of Management, IT & Social Sciences
Available online at https://sloap.org/journals/index.php/irjmis/
Vol. 6 No. 4, July 2019, pages: 174~179
ISSN: 2395-7492
https://doi.org/10.21744/irjmis.v6n4.675
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Effect of Risk Preference, Professional Domination, Information,
and Professional Relationship on Ethical Decision Making of Tax
Consultants
Ida Bagus Widhi Aksiana
a
I Ketut Sujana
b
Article history: Abstract
Received: 27 March 2019
Accepted: 31 May 2019
Published: 15 July 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of risk preferences,
professional dominance, current information, and professional relationships on
tax consultant ethical decision making. This study uses a saturated sampling
method with respondents being Tax Consultants Registered at the Indonesian
Tax Consultant Association in the Bali Nusa Tenggara Region. Data collection
methods used are questionnaires and data analysis using multiple linear
regression. The results showed that risk preferences negatively affected the tax
consultant's ethical decision making. Professional domination has a negative
effect on tax consultant ethical decision making. Present information has a
positive effect on tax consultant ethical decision making. Professional relations
have a negative effect on tax consultant ethical decision making.
Keywords:
professional dominance;
information current;
professional relations;
risk preference;
tax consultant ethical decision
making;
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Author correspondence:
Ida Bagus Widhi Aksiana,
Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia.
Email address: guswidhi@gmail.com
1. Introduction
Taking ethical decisions in business has many obstacles that can be grouped into organizational constraints and
personal characteristics. Organizational constraints include reward systems, organizational culture, and the nature of
corporate leadership while personal characteristics include misunderstanding of business, excessive commitment to
the company, and ethical immaturity (Brooks & Dunn, 2008). Trevino (1986), states that one's ethical decision making
will depend on individual factors of the person making the decision, so it is deemed necessary to examine the factors
that can strengthen the ethical decision making of tax consultants, especially from individual factors. One of the things
that can help someone in facing an ethical dilemma is ethical orientation. Ethical orientation is an alternative pattern
of one's behavior to resolve ethical dilemmas, one of which is formed by idealism (Forsyth, 1980; Higgins & Kelleher,
2005). Idealism is related to actions that are guided by ethical and moral values. Professionals including tax consultants
a
Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia
b
Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia