Professional Ethics Quiz

C. The determination of rightness or wrongness based on consequences

D. The belief that all human acts are selfish by nature

B. The pursuit of personal advantage in all actions

A. The study of moral standards and their application to social systems and organizations

D. Exploring the history of ethics

B. Practical development of skills in dealing with ethical issues in accounting and corporate

C. Understanding theoretical ethical concepts only

A. Developing personal values

A. Ethics is concerned with norms and beliefs, while morality is the study of moral standards

C. Ethics is universal, while morality is individual

D. Morality is concerned with right and wrong for a community, while ethics determine individual behavior

B. Morality is about consequences, while ethics is about intrinsic features

B. Utilitarianism

A. Egoism

D. Prima Facie Obligations

C. Kant's Ethics

D. Actions should be based on personal advantage

C. Morality depends on the maxim behind an action being a universal law

B. Morality is determined by intrinsic features of actions

A. Actions are morally praiseworthy if they promote the greatest human welfare

A. Immanuel Kant

B. W. D. Ross

D. John Stuart Mill

C. Jeremy Bentham

C. Morality is a system of laws analogous to physics

B. Actions should be based on personal advantage

D. Morality depends on the outcome of an action

A. Morality is determined by the intrinsic features of actions

C. Duties that come into conflict and can be overridden

D. Duties that are based on personal advantage

B. Duties that are universal and unchanging

A. Duties that can never be overridden

C. They are universal, inalienable, and natural

A. They are transferable and depend on human institutions

B. They are specific to certain roles and relationships

D. They are based on personal advantage

A. Predicting the consequences of actions is not always possible

C. It focuses on personal interests rather than public good

B. It is rigid and objective with no room for compromise

D. It ignores blatant wrong actions