Ethics in Financial Business Decisions
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Ethics in Financial Business decisions
The work I reviewed begins with a simple introduction explaining the roots of ethics in America wrought with quotes from our earliest leaders including George Washington and John Adams. Additional quotes identify and support the “Ten Universal Values” of “honesty, integrity, promise-keeping, fidelity, fairness, caring, respect for others, responsible citizenship, pursuit of excellence, and accountability (Smith & Smith, 2003). The article identifies the purpose of ethics in business as being “to direct business men and women to abide by a code of conduct that facilitates, if not encourages, public confidence in their products and services” (Smith & Smith, 2003).
The articles intent is to provide a clear understanding of the importance of ethics in the business and a bit more specifically, the accounting arenas, when it divulges that the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has adopted a code ethics for accounting professionals and further states that all three major accounting professional organizations have ethics codes.
The article attempts to drive home the point that ethics are an integral learned part, if not the absolute foundation, of the success or failure of a business and lays the responsibility of ethical education past its rudimentary levels on the educational facilities and businesses that employ and engage new workers in the business world. The work provides that while ethics must be taught on the home front that that level of education merely sets the foundation for ethical thinking and deci ...