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¶ … unethical practices and behavior in Accounting. Review the effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on financial statements.
Identify situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in Accounting
The company may distort its accounts in order to make its situation more attractive to current and prospective investors. It may distort its accounts believing that economic conditions will be more promising in the future or equivocating one account with another.
Other situations that may result in unethical practices may be the situation of hiring accountants who, even though they are from an external agency, are paid a bonus to audit the financial records of the organization in a biased way. The organization, too, may reward these auditors in other manners, and so, even if not done overtly, the bribery induces the auditors to lean towards the organization and distort the accounts.
Furthermore, organizational behavior is modeled and influenced by the general organizational corruption. Corruption in the workplace implicitly impacts conduct of those who work for the organization. The effects not only of managers but also...
Rationalization is easy: simply disconnecting oneself from the purpose of the job (i.e. The wider purpose aside from that of making money), as well as disconnecting oneself from the customer (in that distorted accounts are misleading the customer) usually aids one in implementing distorted accounts. These are some of the justifications that Hatch (2010) lists. Others include rationalizations such as prospective or current investors deserve to be misled for whatever purpose (usually because they are greedy); distortion is insignificant and can be explained; distortion will be corrected when company reverts to good times (i.e. It is only for the present / this time alone); and distortion are not hurting anyone
The effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on…
Hatch, Larry (2010) Justifications for Unethical Behavior.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2639865/justifications_for_unethical_behavior_pg2.html?cat=9
Lasher, William R. (2008). Practical Financial Management (5th ed.). Thomson South-Western.
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