MOD 1 Ethical Decision Making Start by reading and following these instructions: 1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the assignment rubric to help you focus. 2. Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any additional recommended resources. Some answers may require you to do additional research on the Internet or in other reference sources. Choose your sources carefully. 3. Consider the course discussions so far and any insights gained from it. 4. Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources if needed, use APA style as required, and check your spelling. Assignment: 1. You are asked to give a speech to a high school FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) class that will introduce them to business ethics. Write a 1-2 page outline of your speech. Also include why you will cover the information and real-life cases you would. 2. Explain how a major trend in the environment has affected your profession, job, or skills— as a professional or student. Be specific. Are any ethical consequences involved, and has this trend affected you? 3. You are applying to a prestigious organization for an important, highly visible position. The application requires you to describe an ethical dilemma in your history and how you handled it. Describe the dilemma and your ethical position. Be sure to fully explain the entire situation. Also discuss how your personal ethical values influenced your decisions and behavior in this matter. (Note those instances where you might find that there was some difference between these aspirational/espoused values and your actual behavior). 4. You are a staff associate at a major public accounting firm and graduated from college two years ago. You are working on an audit for a small, non-profit religious publishing firm. After performing tests on the royalty payables system, you discover that for the past five years, the royalty payable system has miscalculated the royalties it owes to authors for their publications. The firm owes almost $100,000 in past due royalties. All of the contracts with each author are negotiated differently. However, each author’s royalty percentage will increase at different milestones in books sold (i.e., 2% up to $10,000 and 3% thereafter). The software package did not calculate the increases, and none of the authors ever received their increase in royalty payments. At first you can’t believe that none of the authors ever realized they were owed their money. You double check your calculations and then present your findings to the senior auditor on the job. Much to your surprise, his suggestion is to pass over this finding. He suggests that you sample new additional royalty contracts and document that you expanded your testing and found nothing wrong. The firm’s audit approach is well documented in this area and is firmly based on statistical sampling. Because you had found multiple errors in the small number of royalty contracts tested, the firm’s approach s ...

1. MOD 1
Ethical Decision Making
Start by reading and following these instructions:
1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the
assignment rubric to help you focus.
2. Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any
additional recommended resources. Some answers may require
you to do additional research on the Internet or in other
reference sources. Choose your sources carefully.
3. Consider the course discussions so far and any insights
gained from it.
4. Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your
sources if needed, use APA style as required, and check your
spelling.
Assignment:
1. You are asked to give a speech to a high school FBLA
(Future Business Leaders of America) class that will introduce
them to business ethics. Write a 1-2 page outline of your
speech. Also include why you will cover the information and
real-life cases you would.
2. Explain how a major trend in the environment has affected
your profession, job, or skills— as a professional or student. Be
specific. Are any ethical consequences involved, and has this
trend affected you?
3. You are applying to a prestigious organization for an
important, highly visible position. The application requires you
to describe an ethical dilemma in your history and how you
handled it. Describe the dilemma and your ethical position. Be
sure to fully explain the entire situation. Also discuss how your
personal ethical values influenced your decisions and behavior
in this matter. (Note those instances where you might find that
there was some difference between these aspirational/espoused
values and your actual behavior).
4. You are a staff associate at a major public accounting firm

2. and graduated from college two years ago. You are working on
an audit for a small, non-profit religious publishing firm. After
performing tests on the royalty payables system, you discover
that for the past five years, the royalty payable system has
miscalculated the royalties it owes to authors for their
publications. The firm owes almost $100,000 in past due
royalties. All of the contracts with each author are negotiated
differently. However, each author’s royalty percentage will
increase at different milestones in books sold (i.e., 2% up
to $10,000 and 3% thereafter). The software package did not
calculate the increases, and none of the authors ever received
their increase in royalty payments. At first you can’t believe
that none of the authors ever realized they were owed their
money. You double check your calculations and then present
your findings to the senior auditor on the job.
Much to your surprise, his suggestion is to pass over this
finding. He suggests that you sample new additional royalty
contracts and document that you expanded your testing
and found nothing wrong. The firm’s audit approach is well
documented in this area and is firmly based on statistical
sampling. Because you had found multiple errors in the small
number of royalty contracts tested, the firm’s approach
suggested testing 100% of the contracts. This would mean (1)
going over the budgeted time/expense estimated to the client;
(2) possibly providing a negative audit finding; and (3)
confirming that the person who audited the section in the years
past may not have performed procedures correctly.
Based on the prior year’s work papers, the senior auditor on the
job performed the testing phase in all of these years just before
his promotion. For some reason, you get the impression that the
senior auditor is frustrated with you. The relationship seems
strained. He is very intense, constantly checking the staff ’s
progress in the hope of coming in even a half-hour under
budget for a designated test/audit area. There’s a lot of
pressure, and you don’t know what to do. This person is
responsible for writing your review for your personnel file and

3. bonus or promotion review. He is a very popular employee who
is “on the fast track” to partnership. You don’t know whether to
tell the truth and risk a poor performance review and jeopardize
your future with this company, or to tell the truth, hopefully be
exonerated, and be able to live with yourself by “doing the right
thing” and facing consequences with a clean conscience.
1. What would you do as the staff associate in this situation?
Why? What are the risks of telling the truth for you? What are
the benefits? Explain.
2. What is the “right” thing to do in this situation? What is the
“smart” thing to do for your job and career? What is the
difference, if there is one, between the “right” and “smart”
thing to do in this situation? Explain.
3. Explain what you would say to the senior auditor, your boss,
in this situation if you decided to tell the truth as you know it
MOD 2
Start by reading and following these instructions:
1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the
assignment rubric to help you focus.
2. Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any
additional recommended resources. Some answers may require
you to do additional research on the Internet or in other
reference sources. Choose your sources carefully.
3. Consider the discussion and the any insights you gained from
it.
4. Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your
sources, use APA style as required, check your spelling.
Assignment:
1. Select a corporate leader in the news who acted legally but
immorally and one who acted illegally but morally. Explain the
differences of the actions and behaviors in each of the two
examples. What lessons do you take from your examples?
2. Using Internet search tools, select a case example of an

4. organization that has made what it considered to be an ethical
decision. Describe the decision it faced and the decisions and
actions that it took subsequently. Critique that decision using
the five ethical decision making principles discussed in Chapter
2. Which of the principles were emphasized? Which were less
emphasized? Do you agree with their decision? Why or why
not?
3. Briefly explain your ethical decision-making style as
presented in the module.
4. I was employed as a certified public accountant (CPA) for a
regional accounting firm that specialized in audits of financial
institutions and had many local clients. My responsibilities
included supervising staff, collecting evidence to support
financial statement assertions, and compiling work papers for
managers and partners to review. During the audit of a publicly
traded bank, I discovered that senior bank executives were
under investigation by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC) for removing funds from the bank.
They were also believed to be using bank funds to pay corporate
credit card bills for gas and spouses’ expenses. The last
allegation noted that the executives were issuing loans to
relatives without proper collateral. After reviewing the work
papers, I found two checks made payable to one executive of the
bank that were selected during a cash count from two tellers.
There was no indication based on our sampling that expenses
were being paid for spouses. My audit manager and the
chief financial officer (CFO) of my firm were aware of these
problems.
After the fieldwork for the audit was completed, I was called
into the CEO’s office. The CEO and the
chief operating officer (COO) stated that the FDIC examiners
wanted to interview the audit manager, two staff accountants,
and me. The CEO then asked the following question: “If you
were asked by the FDIC about a check or checks made payable
to bank executives, how would you answer?” I told them that I
would answer the FDIC examiners by stating that, during our

5. audit, we made copies of two checks made payable to an
executive of the bank for $8,000 each.
The COO stated that during his review of the audit work papers
he had not found any copies of checks made payable to
executives. He also stated that a better response to the question
regarding the checks would be, “I was not aware of reviewing
any checks specifically made payable to the executive in
question.” The COO then said that the examiners would be in
the following day to speak with the audit staff. I was
dismissed from the meeting. Neither the CEO nor the COO
asked me if the suggested “better” response was the response I
would give, and I did not volunteer the information. During the
interview, the FDIC investigators never asked me whether I
knew about the checks. Should I have volunteered this
information?
1. What would you have done? Volunteered the information or
stayed silent? Explain your decision.
2. Was anything unethical going on in this case? Explain.
3. Describe the “ethics” of the officers of the firm in this case.
4. What, if anything, should the officers have done, and why?
5. What lessons, if any, can you take from this case, as an
employee working under company officials who have more
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