Ernst and Young to Pay $100M Fine After Auditors Cheated on Ethics Exams

What message are we sending if you merely have to pay a fine for cheating on ethics exams but you still get to keep doing business?

Did anyone actually care about the ethics exam?

I think we all know what it's for: so the institution can either check some requirement that an accreditor has placed upon them, or simply so that they can claim 'every accountant goes through ethics training' whenever some bad news hits the media.

My guess is the students know this, and cheat because they have real things to study.

(Sorry of it's mentioned, cannot read the article and not going to bother finding s way around it).