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This 13-page paper discusses the question of whether accountants will be able to prevent a future Enron (U.S.) or HIH (Australia) accounting scandal, due to the fact that their education and philosophy is that of numbers, rather than ethical behavior. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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which a fishy eye has been placed on the entire accounting profession. Mainly a self-policing profession, wherever in the world it is, accounting consistently has the finger pointed at it
because the facts and figures are handled by human beings, who are subject to misunderstandings at the least, and greed or bribery, at the worst. Its accounting that seems to
be the problem -- because it was accounting irregularities that ended up leading to the various scandals. The question we need to
ask here, however, is what role accountants actually play in such scandals. We need to determine if accountants are simply doomed to trouble, because their focus is on facts and
figures, rather than ethics. Because accountants are more into numbers than they are into ethics (or knowledge of ethics), we need to determine if accountants can fully understand what is
acceptable and unacceptable in terms of values or ethical behavior, and whether theyll continue engaging in patently unethical accounting practices because they simply dont know any better.
To try to prove (or disprove) this hypothesis, well first examine the role of accounting in both the Enron and HIH scandals, then well determine
what the literature has to say about accountants and whether or not theyre trained to determine if something might lead to a scandal or not.
Well conclude the paper by either proving or disproving the theory that accountants, because theyre trained primarily to deal with numbers, simply dont have an understanding of
whether or not theyre behaving in an ethical fashion or not. Basically, accounting professionals and auditors have an obligation and a duty
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