Major trend in environment has affected your profession

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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 speci?c. 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 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 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 bene?ts? 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.

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