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This 9-page paper brings up an ethical issue as it pertains to management accounting, and discusses solutions that the controller needs to consider to remain on the right side of ethics. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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problems for the above-mentioned companies), much of the literature and information directed to accountants described and discussed the problems dealing with ethics, particularly when it came to managerial accounting, and
with good reason. Accounting, by its very nature, is ripe for problems when it comes to ethics. Unlike the Enron situations, in
which figures were willfully manipulated to boost revenues so investors would continue to sink money into the company, most ethical scrapes when it comes to management accounting are in gray
areas. In other words, the accountants dont deliberately try to be dishonest or to fool around with the figures -- but they believe that the good of the company can
determine and support some type of manipulation of the balance sheets. As well see in the Arcticview study below, this is exactly
what happened to the management accountant who found herself in a dilemma in terms of her company presidents decisions. In this, well examine the case study, then provide some alternatives
(and possible consequences) that the accountant may need to consider other than leaving her job -- which is definitely a possibility, but it doesnt resolve the ethical dilemma she faces.
Arcticview -- an Overview This particular case study was presented by management accountant Grant Russell in a 1996 edition of CMA (Canadian
Management Accounting). Though this was written well before the Eron and WorldCom accounting irregularities came to life, its interesting to note that the president of fictitious Arcticview used a lot
of the same justifications that were used by Ken Lay (Enron) and Bernie Ebbers (WorldCom) when it came to the fact that they gave tacit approval to manipulation of the
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