After 9-point drop from 2001, accountants gain back all but 2 points.
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup’s annual poll on the honesty and ethics of people in different professions finds that accountants’ ratings have almost fully recovered from the business scandals of 2002.
Accountants’ ratings went from 41% in 2001 to 32% during the Enron-era scandals and are at 39% today.
Business executives had shown some improvement in recent years, but their ratings have fallen back this year. After dropping from 25% in 2001 to 16% in 2002, they inched up to 20% last year. However, this year, they returned to the 16% level.
Nurses continue to be rated most positively, by a substantial margin. Telemarketers and car salesmen rank at the bottom of this year’s list. Most of the professions’ ratings show little change from their last readings. However, there has been a slight increase in the ratings of bankers’ honesty and ethics, and slight decreases for pharmacists and congressmen.
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