Questions from General Accounting

Q: In teaching about moral development, instructors often point out the threefold

In teaching about moral development, instructors often point out the threefold nature of morality: It depends on emotional development (in the form of the ability to feel guilt or shame), social devel...

Q: In her book The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, Jennings explains

In her book The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, Jennings explains: “When an organization collapses ethically, it means that those in the organization have drifted into rationalizations and legalisms,...

Q: The issue of the size of executive compensation packages is explored in

The issue of the size of executive compensation packages is explored in the text. The highest paid CEO in 2014 was David Zaslav, the CEO of Discovery Communications, whose total executive compensation...

Q: Five months before the new 2002 Lexus ES hit showroom floors,

Five months before the new 2002 Lexus ES hit showroom floors, the company’s U.S. engineers sent a test report to Toyota City in Japan: The luxury sedan shifted gears so roughly that it was “not accept...

Q: The 2011 National Business Ethics Survey defines “active social networkers”

The 2011 National Business Ethics Survey defines “active social networkers” as people who spend more than 30 percent of the workday participating on social networking sites. According to the results o...

Q: Brief and Motowidlo define prosocial behavior within the organizational setting as “

Brief and Motowidlo define prosocial behavior within the organizational setting as “behavior which is (a) performed by a member of an organization, (b) directed toward an individual, group, or organiz...

Q: What is the link between the internal control environment and accountability?

What is the link between the internal control environment and accountability?

Q: The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) explains the importance of

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) explains the importance of the control environment to internal controls by stating that it sets the tone of an organization, influencing the control co...

Q: It has been argued that an organization that does not support those

It has been argued that an organization that does not support those that whistle blow because of violation of professional standards is indicative of a failure of organizational ethics. Explain what y...

Q: Evaluate the ethics of the practice of whistleblowing from the perspectives of

Evaluate the ethics of the practice of whistleblowing from the perspectives of virtue, rights theory, and utilitarianism.