Principled decision making is tied to your internal or belief systems and they shape your introspective intelligence through what you do…. It’s a no brainer that external behaviors or performances shape a firm’s outcomes.
In the same way a mercury measures and displays temperature rates, beliefs or internal accounting values gauges and illustrate ethical accounting practices within organizations. An accountant’s basic beliefs shape external accounting practices that extend to other decision makers such as business owners, managers, or creditors, either ethically or unethically. Each time an ethical belief is put into practice at work an accountant contributes right principles to that branch of accounting. It might be ethical financial, managerial tax, or auditing for cash flow gains or losses.
Unethical accounting practices, on the other hand, result from wrong beliefs about accounting performances, or unethical beliefs expressed in a language of unacceptable behaviors for business. Our internal or introspective intelligence which determines ethical behavior, is shaped by both beliefs and practices.
How much time is given at your organization to develop people’s intrapersonal intelligence for ethical practices…? Can you see any value in this kind of development…?
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