Ethical Values In Accounting
My major is business administration with concentration in accounting. It makes
me sad to realize that in the last couple years this discipline that has been so
useful and respected has been under pressure and looked down upon, due to
multiple behaviors by big companies that have resorted to accounting fraud in
order to report greater earnings for their own purpose as well as to fool
investors. Prominent companies and CEOs have been authors of such fraud which
has weakened the business industry. Companies like Enron, Tyco, WorldCom and
others have been an example of how high profile unethical behavior has become.
It has been increasingly visible that ethics were overlooked for the sake of
profits. Some will argue that given that the goal of a firm is to maximize
profits for shareholders, ethics should take a backseat to profits; however in
this paper I will try to show that good business ethics in accounting are
increasingly important and that it should be the......
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