Accounting – Ethic Paper
Managerial Accounting Ethics Case Accounting 102 Instructor: Mark McCallick, CPA Ethics Assignment (40 points):
1. Watch the four short (8 to 10 minutes each) Videos below from The University of Texas McCombs
School of Businesss Ethics Unwrapped website:
a. Being Your Best Self, Part 1: Moral Awareness https://youtu.be/snm01IG_PHU b. Being Your Best Self, Part 2: Moral Decision Making https://youtu.be/WZ2l89wEIwM c. Being Your Best Self, Part 3: Moral Intent https://youtu.be/c0kJjyZZE7c d. Being Your Best Self, Part 4: Moral Action https://youtu.be/OBSac1BjVOM e.
2. After viewing the four videos above, visit the AICPA website below and read the section of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct noted (one page)
a. Click Here ?AICPA Principles of Professional Conduct – Section 0.300 to 0.300.070 (just read the page that comes up about 1.5 pages scroll down the document)
3. After completing steps 1 & 2 above answer these questions:
a. Who should be primarily responsible for keeping ethical considerations in your frame of
reference as you make decisions in the workplace? Your boss? Or you? Why?
b. Is it right to pay a bribe to induce a government entity to approve a program that will benefit people? How would you decide?
c. Have you ever done something that you know in retrospect that you shouldnt have but you did it because you wanted to help a friend, a family member, or an organization you belonged to?
d. What do you think of the liked versus respected dichotomy suggested by one of the people interviewed for the video?
e. Have you had the courage to lose a job or something else that was valuable, as did one of the interviewees who forfeited a teaching job for the sake of integrity and your own code of Ethics?
f. Do you think Professions like Accounting (CPAs. Accountants etc) should have Code of Ethics? Or should everyone just make their own code?
http://pub.aicpa.org/codeofconduct/resourceseamlesslogin.aspx?prod=ethics&tdoc=et-cod&tptr=et-cod0.300&vct=1
Managerial Accounting Ethics Case Accounting 102 Instructor: Mark McCallick, CPA Ethics Assignment (40 points):
Your written analysis should be a minimum of two pages long, double spaced size 12 font. Use APA or MLA formatting. The Ethics assignment is worth 40 points. Upload your written Ethics research paper in the Ethics Case section of Canvas. The Ethics Case is a one of the Modules in Canvas for this course. NOTE: I use TurnItIn to Check for Plagiarism. TurnItIn is a program that analyzes your written submissions and reports any plagiarism from other students or from the internet.
Therefore, please note that if your paper uses ANY content that is not your own, you must properly cite the work you are using giving proper credit to the author. You may only use other authors work when it is used to support your own statements. You MUST use your own words and write an original paper, or you will be given an “F” for this assignment. If TurnItIn detects plagiarism, you will be given an “F” for this assignment. If you simply “cut & paste” from the internet, you will be given an “F” for this assignment.
If you have any questions regarding the Ethics paper or TurnItIn, please contact me.
GRADING (40 points): This Ethics assignment will be graded on the following:
Being turned in on-time Following the instructions and answering all questions above The content of your answer and your ability to write in a clear, professional manner using all
rules of grammar and spelling.
(For more videos and reading on the topic of Ethics visit The University of Texas McCombs School of Business Ethics Unwrapped website at https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/ )
