Question

ethic's Decision making:

You are an entry-level accountant at city hall. You work for the accounting department, but have been loaned out to the department responsible for building and maintaining roads while the managers develop their annual budget. The director of the department is in the middle of a divorce. He asks you to work on a Saturday to finish up details of the budget. When you arrive, he asks you to work on a schedule for his personal financial information for the upcoming divorce court case. When you finish the statements, he tells you to record your hours as overtime and bill them to the city.

REQUIRED:

What is the ethical issue here?

What are your alternatives?

If you do as the director asks and your boss finds out, what might happen?

What risks are involved?

What information is relevant to your decision?

Is this an open-ended problem? Why or why not?

Explore this problem from different perspectives:

Your own. The department director Your boss The taxpayers How important is it for you to behave ethically?

Answer 1

Step 1:

a)

The ethical issue is that the director asks the accountant to work on their personal matter and charges the overtime on the city. So it is unethical to charge their personal expense on the company.

b)

The 1st alternative is to deny work and make an excuse for lack of knowledge.

The 2nd alternative is that it informs the boss, or informs the other person in higher authority.

c)

If boss find out the accountant during the work then there are the situation is as follows:

· The director conveys the boss about their work.

· There is a chance of removing the director from the company for these unethical issues.

· There is a chance of sharing the benefit of overtime work.

d)

The risk is removal by the boss from the company, the risk of salary deduction, the risk of insulting before colleagues.