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Tasks

Task 01

Assuming you are faced with the dilemma, your are required to Identify the ethical dilemma in following situations and discuss your ethical obligations in each of the following situations.

a) Kim Tanabe a senior CPA of De Souza & Shah, the audit firm is ordered by Warren, the audit manager to downgrade the rating of Maximum Software Limited's software package being considered for JKB Communication - the audit client of De Souza & Shah, and increase the ratings for ACB Software Solution Ltd, which is run by the Warren's wife.

b) Janny the tax accountant has been requested by her supervisor Jeff to take a position on a tax matter that will result in a substantial tax refund in the prior year's tax return by application of a technical provision in a tax of Fine Deal Ltd. which will make the Fine Deal's management happy. Jeff had further added that this is a common practice in the firm and the likelihood of the Inland Revenue department questioning it is remote.

Task 02

National Business Ethic Survey is released four times per year, GBES is the world's most comprehensive, cross-cultural survey of workplace behavior. By using Research Report from the National Business Ethics Survey (NBES), large companies can dramatically improve their integrity by implementing effective ethics and compliance programs to reduce employee misconduct and improve every key measure of workplace behavior. The research report published in 2011 was about `active social networker'. Active social networkers are people who spend 30 percent of their worktime in social media platforms. It had been revealed by the survey that the active social networkers either intentionally or unintentionally air some important information related to their workplace.

Following were the findings through the survey.

comment on their social networking sites about their company if it was in the news	60%
employees share information related to work project once a week or regularly in social networking sites	53%
Comment about their manager, co-workers and clients in social networking sites	35%

You are required to critically evaluate the danger of posting workplace information in social networking sites for employee and employer.