The achievement of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) achieve the ethical goals in the ethics and professional conduct of certified public accountants in Iran, from the perspective of ethical schools (structuralist and poststructuralist)

The growing pace of change, technology, knowledge, insight, etc. have created various laws and regulations that inevitably affect human action and reaction. The collapse of large corporations, the enactment of new laws, the emergence of slogans of transparency, sustainability, accountability, etc. have all had a profound effect on the scope of the etiquette and professional behavior of accountants. The aim of the present study is to investigate The achievement of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) achieve the ethical goals in the ethics and professional conduct of certified public accountants in Iran, from the perspective of ethical schools (structuralist and poststructuralist). To do so, a number of accounting experts, professors and members of the Iranian Society of Certified Public Accountants (N=23) participated in the research. A Likert-scale questionnaire was applied for the collection of data. Findings of the present action research reveal that the compilers of e international financial reporting standards have a clear tendency to exert the structuralism schools perspectives; moreover, the goals of structuralism ethical perspective are more prominent in the context of ethics and professional conduct of developing international financial reporting standards. Finally, the results of the study indicate that The influence of the thoughts and way of thinking of the compilers of ethics and professional conduct of certified public accountants in Iran is more inclined towards structuralist ethical schools and this leads to greater correlation with the ethical goals of International Financial Reporting Standards.