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coke
Joined: 21 Sep 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: Ethical Issues |
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Guys I don't know how to answer this question, any help would be appreciated.. thanks alot.
Q. You are an entry-level accountant at city hall. You work for the accounting department, but have been loaned out to the department responsible for building and maintaining roads while the managers develop their annual budget. The director of the department is in the middle of a nasty divorce. He asks you to work on a Saturday to finish up details of the budget. When you arrive, he asks you to work on a schedule for his personal financial information for the upcoming divorce court case. When you finish the statements, he tells you to record your hours as overtime and bill them to the city.
-What is the ethical issue here?
-What are your alternatives?
-If you do as the director asks and your boss finds out, what might happen? What risks are involved?
-What information is relevant to your decision?
-Explore this problem from different perspectives:
1. Your own 2. The department director 3. Your boss 4. The taxpayers
-How important is it for you to behave ethically?
-Based on your analysis of the situation, write a short “script” for how you would respond to the department director.
-Suppose you decide not to do what the director asks. Discuss the issues you would consider as you decide whether to report this incident to your boss. |
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coke
Joined: 21 Sep 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:18 am Post subject: important and urgent |
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| imp n urgent |
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irsfixer
Joined: 24 Jul 2007
Posts: 167
Location: Houston
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:39 am Post subject: Re: Ethical Issues |
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coke wrote: Guys I don't know how to answer this question, any help would be appreciated.. thanks alot.
Q. You are an entry-level accountant at city hall. You work for the accounting department, but have been loaned out to the department responsible for building and maintaining roads while the managers develop their annual budget. The director of the department is in the middle of a nasty divorce. He asks you to work on a Saturday to finish up details of the budget. When you arrive, he asks you to work on a schedule for his personal financial information for the upcoming divorce court case. When you finish the statements, he tells you to record your hours as overtime and bill them to the city.
-What is the ethical issue here?
-What are your alternatives?
-If you do as the director asks and your boss finds out, what might happen? What risks are involved?
-What information is relevant to your decision?
-Explore this problem from different perspectives:
1. Your own 2. The department director 3. Your boss 4. The taxpayers
-How important is it for you to behave ethically?
-Based on your analysis of the situation, write a short “script” for how you would respond to the department director.
-Suppose you decide not to do what the director asks. Discuss the issues you would consider as you decide whether to report this incident to your boss.
What are the ethics of asking a forum to do your homework? |
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Des
Joined: 20 Sep 2008
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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what a bad question to ask on forums.. this involves no accounting.
I can respect people coming on the forums and asking for help on tough calculations or strange scenarios.. but this is just retarded. |
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CEAudit
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| HA! Good answer Mike ;-) |
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