A Breach of Professional Accounting Ethics Kira Welcome Professor Dr. Jacob Angima Financial Accounting ACC 557 October 30, 2012 A Breach of Professional Accounting Ethics Based on the corporate ethical breaches in recent times I believe that the current businesses and regulatory environment is more conducive to ethical behavior due to the workplace. In the workplace ethics develops an atmosphere of respect and tolerance for everyone, by striving to conduct business in a manner that is
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Introduction Accounting ethics is necessary people financial consultants, accountants or accounting executives are privy to confidential, private and sensitive information about people, companies and their clients. One trusts an accountant with information regarding their finances or business. That’s why it is so important for ethics in accounting and in financial reporting. It is important for ANY type of business to practice ethics and not breach them. History and background of Adelphia Communications
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Assignment 1: Review of Accounting Ethics ACC 557 April 27, 2014 Conductive Ethical Behavior I believe that the current business and regulatory environment is more conductive to ethical behavior. In current times a company’s reputation can determine its success or failure. This has made more company’s own up to their ethical mistakes and behaviors. They are more likely to admit a mistake or failure when an ethical breach has surface in order to save face and keep its reputation. This is evident
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Financial management is the management of any business finances or an organization in order to achieve the business financial objective (Jones & Bartlett, 2010). There are many financial decisions that are made on a day to day basis for any transactions to occur (Jones & Bartlett, 2010). These decisions are made according to the organizations fiscal objectives (Jones & Bartlett, 2010). But we all may have one question and that question is “How well are health care organizations’ finances and are
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TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0 Introduction | | 2.0 Issues Surrounding the Professionalism of Accounting | | 3.0 Literature Review | | 4.0 Presentation of the main Idea about the Professionalism of Accounting | | 5.0 Analysis and discussion | | 6.0 Conclusion | | 7.0 Reference | | 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2.0 ISSUES SURROUNDING THE PROFESSIONALISM OF ACCOUNTING Twenty years ago, Briloff (1986) alerted the profession to the crisis of credibility being faced because society perceived
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consequences justify the means of earnings management? Earnings management is defined as ‘‘the choice by a manager of accounting policies so as to achieve specific objectives’’ (Scott 2003: 369). Earnings management can be fundamentally classified as either accounting related, involving the manipulation of accounting records through aggressive or fraudulent applications of accounting principles, or operating related, involving choices made by management regarding the timing of investment or operating
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Ethics – can we merge AICPA and IFAC ethics standards? AC504 March 10, 2013 INTRODUCTION There are many challenges and obstacles facing the accounting profession with the convergence towards a globally accepted accounting reporting structure and a global ethics structure. Today’s economy is becoming globally smaller and more importantly the economy from all fronts is becoming more co-dependent on one another from a domestic and international perspective regarding finance, raw materials
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Assignment 1: Review of Accounting Ethics Kelvin Darden Strayer University ACC 557 Darren Tennyuk May 5, 2013 Assignment 1: Review of Accounting Ethics The New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accounts (NZICA) represents over 33,000 members in New Zealand and overseas. The organization audits private companies and public companies that are members of the organization (Graham, 1960). In October 2012, the organization was found to be practicing breaches of accounting with its members when
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20, 2011 Ethical Compliance by the Accountant on the Quality of Financial Reporting and Performance of Quoted Companies in Nigeria 1 G.N. Ogbonna and 2Appah Ebimobowei Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Port-Harcourt, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria 2 Department of Accounting, Bayelsa State College of Education, Okpoama, Brass Island, P.M.B. 74 Yenagoa, Nigeria 1 Abstract: The study investigates the ethical compliance by the accountant on the quality of financial
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Arthur Andersen: Questionable Accounting Practices Steven Young Strayer University Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases Dr. Mary Tranquillo November 13, 2012 Arthur Andersen: Questionable Accounting Practices p1 Arthur Andersen, one of the largest accounting firms in the United States, “a name that was synonymous with trust, integrity, and ethics” (Ferrell, Fraedrich, & Ferrell, 2011, p. 348), through a loss of
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