INTRODUCTION Ethics is a branch of philosophy that inquiries into the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be judged right or wrong. Nowadays, with competitive market shares, ethics is becoming more and more important. It could be concerned as one of the elements to business development. To business, ethics is a tool to exam principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. Therefore, business ethics can be both a normative and a descriptive
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indicator of company success, while using its other accolades as a means of inviting investment. Ethics indicates the behavior that all individuals should take in any given situation. In regards to Fannie Mae’s governance, the behaviors engaged in by upper management were contrary to good governance, and ethics. This author believes that there is no direct connection between social responsibility and ethics –
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Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper HCS/405 March 7, 2016 Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) represent the general rules, standards, and practices that are used in accounting. GAAP are required for businesses when reporting financial records. When preparing financial statements, a company’s accountant is mandated to use these principles before they issue these statements to investors and other entities outside of the business. The objective
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Abstract Within the accounting profession there are many complex ethical issues that must be dealt with quite often. It is important that the people working within the industry provide high quality financial statements and always pay close attention to ethical concerns that may arise. Since ethics is such a major concern in the accounting industry, a rules based system is in place for enforcing ethical concerns. There are many regulating bodies that exist that enforce many highly detailed regulations
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Tavonna Triplett Career Paper Accounting The different types of accounting careers are Public, Government, National, Management, Financial, Tax, and. Fiduciary Accounting. Public accounting is the most varied type and includes bookkeeping, account management and financial analysis for individuals, private businesses, public firms, government or NGOs, which are either based nationally are internationally. A public accounting business can have one or more accountants and both certified and non-certified
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government. They have a responsibility to know the regulations, rules and laws that have been put in place for accountants. Lastly accountants have a responsibility to perform their obligations and duties by the code of conduct and to the code of ethics. We will start off with the client. The client by definition is the person who pays the professional or organization for services; the person who engages the professional for their advice or services they render. (Legal Dictionary) For these services
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Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper According to G. (2012), is that “the great thing about working in accounting is that everybody counts”. Accounting is vital in all organization for it is the root of a business. However, everyone in the business whether you are a front desk, professionals, management, they all play vital role in the day, month, quarter or annual financial statement that is generated by accountants with historical services that are being rendered to consumers as well as performance
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I am very interested in learning how ethical values promoted by professional accountants’ impact organizational culture, how organizational culture affects accountants’ ethical judgments and how espoused organizational cultures influence public accounting firms. To analyze and look deeper into these issues, I evaluated and studied the following articles: Daniela, Ţogoe Greti, Mateş Dorel, and Mănescu Dragotoiu Mileva Valentina. Impact of Ethical Values Promoted by Professional Accountants on the
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trust directly affects the well being of employees as well as their ability to perform their tasks. Recent historical events suggest that trust between employees and management has been negatively affected however, with the enactment of new laws and ethics policies has there been a strengthening of this trust relationship in recent years? This paper discusses the history effecting trust between employees and management and the related changes that have been implemented in attempts to improve this
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Business Accounting LAW/421 – CONTEMPOARY BUSINESS LAW September 6, 2014 Aretha Somerville Introduction Unethical decisions can ruin a business. Dishonest behaviors by accountants, such as falsifying financial statements, over-billing or misleading regulators, can tarnish a company's reputation, causing loss of customers, employees and/or revenue. In some cases, unethical behavior is also illegal and can result in fines and even jail time for not only accounting executives
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