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Ethics Article Review
The purpose of ethics in business is to direct business men and women to abide by a code of conduct that facilitates, if not encourages, public confidence in their products and services. Professional accounting organizations recognize the accounting profession's responsibility to provide ethical guidelines to its members. According to the article, "It's a matter of integrity," ethics in business is also about the integrity of the people.
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"Integrity is defined in Article III of the California Society of CPAs' Code of Professional Conduct as the quality from which the public trust derives and the benchmark against which a member must ultimately test all decisions" (Schreiber, 2003). Public trust in accounting has faltered over the last decade due to many scandals, including Enron and WorldCom.
Guidelines have been established to help with difficult decisions, but in the end, it is the CPA whose judgment is relied upon to ensure the......

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