Identify situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting. The unethical practices and behavior in accounting would be misleading financial analysis for personal gain‚ misuse of funds‚ overstating revenue‚ and understating expenses‚ overstating the value of corporate assets or underreporting the existence of liabilities‚ sometimes with the cooperation of officials in other corporations or affiliates. Other unethical practices would be insider trading‚ securities
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site was acquired. 2. Paid $200 insurance to cover possible accident loss on new factory machinery while the machinery was in transit. 3. Paid $850 sales taxes on new delivery truck. 4. Paid $17‚500 for parking lots and driveways on new plant site. 5. Paid $250 to have company name and advertising slogan painted on new delivery truck. 6. Paid $8‚000 for installation of new factory machinery. 7. Paid $900 for one-year accident insurance policy on new delivery truck. 8. Paid $75 motor vehicle license
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Unethical practices and behavior in accounting may often go unchecked because the actions may be the result of upper management and even senior executives. Employees fearing negative reactions from management or their peer group may remain silence if they are aware of a person doing unethical things‚ causing the employee to turn a blind eye. Falsifying or altering business documents such as sales receipts‚ or tampering with accounting reports is unethical practices for a company to engage in.
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: Impact of Unethical Behavior The impact of unethical behavior is wide spread‚ and does unimaginable damage to people‚ and business alike. The results of unethical behavior on the grandest scale would be Enron‚ Tyco‚ and Global Crossing‚ or WorldCom. Greed led to accounting abuses‚ cover ups and every day people becoming whistle blowers. Manipulating financial reports is illegal and unethical because the financial records are supposed to show the
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Ethics ACC/291 August 4‚ 2012 Ethics The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was approved in order to keep corporations form scamming the government. The law was a consequence of many corporate scams. This law was to protect the investors and give them the correct information and to make the corporations reveal all information which may impact an investor’s judgment of the corporation. This act/law will make corporations complete an internal audit from time to time as to keep all the information correct
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Sandra Wilson Week 2 Discussion 1 Dreams Do Come True Imagine that you have decided you need a new car‚ but not any car will do; you have decided to purchase the car of your dreams. Conduct some research as to the cost of this car. You have determined in this imagined scenario that you could afford to make a 10% down payment. You can borrow the balance either from your local bank using a four-year loan or from the dealership’s finance company. If you purchase from your dealership’s finance
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In this file ACC 300 Week 5 Individual Assignment - Chapter Six you will find overview of the following parts: 1. Assignments from the Readings. Prepare responses to the following assignments from the e-text‚ Fundamentals of Financial Accounting 1st ed.‚ by Phillips‚ Libby‚ and Libby a. Chapter 6: Questions 2 and 3 2. Summarize the primary purposes of an internal control system. 3. What are the three internal control objectives for financial reporting? Business
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Direct and Indirect Cash Flow Cassandra Stewart ACC 291 June 18‚ 2014 Susan Schulz / Direct and Indirect Cash Flow Differences between direct and indirect cash flow are just what they seem. Direct statement of cash flow identifies a company’s sources and uses of cash. This cash flow has three sections that include operating‚ investing‚ and financing activities. Operating activities includes receipts and payments from normal business operations. Investing activities include the purchase
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Transactions Accounting Principles General Journal Cash Account Purchases ledger Sales ledger General ledger Trail Balance Jan 1 Started business by borrowing a loan of $50 000 from the Centrex Commercial Bank which was invested into the business along with his personal savings of $50 000. The loan carries an interest rate of 12% per annum. The following transactions took place during the year. 1 Purchased the following assets and paid for them by cash: Furniture and Fittings
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Week 1‚ DQ 1: How would you describe the entries to record the disposition of accounts receivables? What is their function? Since the majority of US thrive on the use of credit cards‚ the accounts receivables for a company may no longer be on a cash-to-cash basis. A company may need to sell these accounts to other companies who specialize in handling accounts receivables if they need cash more quickly or if it would be too costly to perform the necessary billing to collect on the account. The
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