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Ethics and accounting go together like peanut butter and jelly. Ethics is instilled in accounting principles starting with accounting 101. The selected article discusses how accounting ethics have been compromised recently to include such sordid scandals as Enron and World Com.
Einhorn writes; “CPAs need to follow the golden rule: Always be factual and reasonable when evaluating a client’s presentations. That sounds simple enough, but nearly all the dot-com scandals were rooted in inflated projections, signed off on by accountants that should have known better.” At this point, a rhetorical question is in order: When did it become fashionable to deceive documentation in order to profit and how does an executive think that the inflation will not be found? The author relates this greed to a think track that “playing fast and loose with the facts will help their businesses grow” however, even though accountants have been trained to be ethical, the author describes accountants......

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