Jason Tybell Case Analysis
1. Frame the ethical issue:
• Should Jason Tybell be fired for the inappropriate behavior and comments to clients?
2. Gather all the facts:
• Jason Tybell is a CPA who graduated from the university with bachelor degree in accounting and has been working for a professional accounting company named Rodger&Philips for two years with high evaluations from his seniors.
• Although, he has good performance score, he isn’t asked to work on the current audits of two clients that he worked on previous year.
• Jason has a meeting with his mentor, William Jackson, to talk about this unusual incident.
• Before the meeting, Jackson is informed that one more complaint about Jason is received from the third client.
• In the meeting, Jackson wants to know the reason of this inappropriate behavior and tries to get logical answers from Jason.
• Jason says that he is teasing the client and he thinks that the client has a sense of humor to understand that joke.
3. Identify the stakeholders and obligations:
• Jason Tybell: He is the auditor who has to have and use interpersonal skills such as good communication skills, the ability to get along with clients in a respectful way, whics is as important as having technical knowledge.
• William Jackson: He is the mentor who should evaluate the situation of Tybell fairly and with different perspectives, such as the reasons of getting high scores from performance evaluations, the reasons of not to be asked from the clients, the chance of improvement of the behaviors of Tybell etc.
• Clients: They deserve to be behaved respecfully by the auditors that they work with.
• Rodgers&Philips: Accounting company that should be responsible for the behaviors of its employees (auditors) to the clients as well as their works. Moreover, it should have a fair performance evaluation system.
4. Identify the relevant accounting ethics standards involved in the situation:
• Respect: All people should be treated with
• Should Jason Tybell be fired for the inappropriate behavior and comments to clients?
2. Gather all the facts:
• Jason Tybell is a CPA who graduated from the university with bachelor degree in accounting and has been working for a professional accounting company named Rodger&Philips for two years with high evaluations from his seniors.
• Although, he has good performance score, he isn’t asked to work on the current audits of two clients that he worked on previous year.
• Jason has a meeting with his mentor, William Jackson, to talk about this unusual incident.
• Before the meeting, Jackson is informed that one more complaint about Jason is received from the third client.
• In the meeting, Jackson wants to know the reason of this inappropriate behavior and tries to get logical answers from Jason.
• Jason says that he is teasing the client and he thinks that the client has a sense of humor to understand that joke.
3. Identify the stakeholders and obligations:
• Jason Tybell: He is the auditor who has to have and use interpersonal skills such as good communication skills, the ability to get along with clients in a respectful way, whics is as important as having technical knowledge.
• William Jackson: He is the mentor who should evaluate the situation of Tybell fairly and with different perspectives, such as the reasons of getting high scores from performance evaluations, the reasons of not to be asked from the clients, the chance of improvement of the behaviors of Tybell etc.
• Clients: They deserve to be behaved respecfully by the auditors that they work with.
• Rodgers&Philips: Accounting company that should be responsible for the behaviors of its employees (auditors) to the clients as well as their works. Moreover, it should have a fair performance evaluation system.
4. Identify the relevant accounting ethics standards involved in the situation:
• Respect: All people should be treated with