Lack of Integrity among Ghanaian Accounting Academics: Upshot on Employers’ Operational Costs

Abstract

This paper studied how lack of integrity by accounting academics impacts increased-cost-of-operations of universities in Ghana offering accounting degree programmes. Using cross-sectional survey, data collected were analysed via Cronbach’s alpha, tests of differences-between-proportions, and one-way ANOVA. Students would not recommend their universities for academics’ lack of integrity. Universities’ operational costs are increased by reduction-in-enrolment (REN), reduction-in-grants-aids-anddonations (RGD), payment of phony-faculty-claims (PPC), and rapid-impairment-of-assets (RIA). The accounting profession, business schools and other accountancy training institutions and stakeholder organizations must provide activities, policies, practices, programmes and punitive measures that are capable of averting incidents of non-adherence to integrity among academics.