Effect of Unethical Behavior Article There are a few factors that can lead to unethical practices and behaviors in accounting such factors are financial pressure‚ opportunity‚ and rationalization. With proper checks and balances and accounting procedures a company can minimize the risk of unethical practices and behaviors. Unfortunately‚ there is no sure way to completely avoid unethical practices and behaviors. The most important element of unethical practices and behavior is opportunity
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Effects of Unethical Behavior Article David Haynes ACC/291 October 8‚ 2012 Celeste Garrett Effects of Unethical Behavior Article There are several situations that can unethical behaviors and practices. In 2002 the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was made law to stop unethical situations that where taken place in many companies‚ big or small when a company practice unethical practices‚ there can be lots of damage to the company. In many instances law has at best led
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The Unethical Behavior of Enron Enron‚ once the countries seventh-largest company according to the Fortune 500‚ is a good example of how greed and the desire for success can transform into unethical behavior. Good ethics in business would be to compete fairly and honestly‚ to communicate truthfully and to not cause harm to others. These are things that Enron did not seem to display‚ which led to Enron’s operations file for bankruptcy in 2001. Enron’s scandal has become one of the most talked
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: Impact of Unethical Behavior The impact of unethical behavior is wide spread‚ and does unimaginable damage to people‚ and business alike. The results of unethical behavior on the grandest scale would be Enron‚ Tyco‚ and Global Crossing‚ or WorldCom. Greed led to accounting abuses‚ cover ups and every day people becoming whistle blowers. Manipulating financial reports is illegal and unethical because the financial records are supposed to show the
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Effect of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis Lisa Talley ACC\291 June 10‚ 2013 Eric Oechsner The Securities and Exchange Commission was created in 1934 to police the U.S. financial markets. Today‚ the Securities and Exchange Commission continues to create legislation tightening reporting standards and providing more transparency. Unfortunately‚ increasing standards often comes after a failure of the system. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a primary example of legislation following
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Impact of Unethical Behavior Article Potential acts leading to unethical practices and behavioral in accounting is evident. These acts are in violation of the Sarbares Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). A recent article on the student website is reviewed to identify potential factors leading to unethical practices and behavior. The article analyzed is called “Becoming a More Relational Firm in the Post-Sarbans-Oxley Era”. As expressed by the article‚ the effects of SOX has been considered by companies
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The Impact of Unethical Behavior The profession today called accountancy and the professionals today called accountants have been in practice by other names since 4000 BC (Giroux‚ 1999). As long as commerce of any kind in any form exists‚ the profession and the professionals will continue to be in the midst of the business world quietly making innovations that change the way the amassing of wealth is recorded. Most accountants are persons of integrity and ethics. Business ethics has many levels
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knowledge would be unethical to share? Ethics is defined as the rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or group. (Bovee‚ Thrill and . 2007‚ pg 63) When an employee leaves one company to work for a competitor‚ they aren’t just taking their skills or qualifications with them. They are taking the knowledge of the previous company that they worked for‚ such as product information or production plans. It is up to the former employee to keep in mind the ethics of behavior when it comes to
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Unethical practices and behavior in accounting may often go unchecked because the actions may be the result of upper management and even senior executives. Employees fearing negative reactions from management or their peer group may remain silence if they are aware of a person doing unethical things‚ causing the employee to turn a blind eye. Falsifying or altering business documents such as sales receipts‚ or tampering with accounting reports is unethical practices for a company to engage in.
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financial position of an organization or business. This type of information is critical to investors as it provides them with important and detailed information that could turn out to be the determining factor as to their decisions to invest or not to invest in a particular organization. Therefore‚ it is not uncommon to find unethical behavior in accounting as unethical practices come in different forms. Different situations that might lead to unethical practices in accounting include: • Misleading
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