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Date Submitted: 11/20/2011 03:06 PM
Ethics Assignment
1) D
The accountants should follow professional ethics because in our profession there would be a lot of situation when you have to make a choice between ethical and unethical behavior even though in both cases they both could be legal. The way I think you should behave and act towards people and organizations the same way you want everybody else behave and act towards you. And unless you have very strong ethical values, in some cases you would be inclined to look the other way.
2) Ethics are values, norms and behavior and the law doesn’t cover that broad of the issues in all the cases. That’s as I said above you not only should behave legally but also ethically, the same way you expect to be treated. But there are a lot of issues regarding the ethics, there would we some situations when it is ethically to do something but illegal. There would be also cases when the management above behaves in unethical manner and would you expect to do the same. And the only defense against that is how strongly you believe in your values.
3) Ethics definitely could be taught and should be taught. When the baby is born, he doesn’t know what ethical and unethical behavior is. That is something that is learned thought the course of the life. It just I don’t personally believe that taking couple course in ethics in college would make any substantial changes to the person behavior. When the person goes to college he already has established norms and values, which he learned through his parents behavior or through the own experience.