 Hello. In this discussion, we will discuss the discussion question of explain why ethics is important in accounting. This is a very common essay question and is becoming more and more common as an essay question. The idea of ethics is going to be very important to any profession, including the accounting profession. We can answer this question by first defining ethics, but of course, ethics is a very broad topic and a topic that's been debated for a long time, has a lot of different aspects to it. We then want to narrow that down and say why are ethics important in a specific profession and then possibly narrow that down and talk about why ethics is important to the field of accounting and to people who practice in accounting as well as the profession of accounting as a whole. When considering ethics from a broad standpoint, we can give some broad ideas of what ethics are, ethics being the