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Business students represent the future employees and managers who will be responsible for making ethical business decisions. Knowledge of students' ethical perceptions provides insight into their potential behavior in the business world. This study examined college students' perceptions regarding the likelihood of their encountering ethical decision-making situations in business and the types of ethical misconduct behaviors that warrant the most severe managerial disciplinary actions. Results of the study indicate that college students expect to encounter business situations where ethics may be called into question. However, college students' appeared to underestimate the seriousness and potential consequences of specific ethical misconduct behaviors. When the breaches of ethical behavior involved conflict of interest, students did not seem to recognize the potentially serious consequences of the behaviors. The findings indicate the need for ethical decision-making opportunities within college business classes to prepare students for the realities of the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]