Discuss the source(s) from which sound ethics are drawn.
How does one identify the ethical thing to do in a given situation?
What ethical precepts (involving accounting) have broken down in the recent past, and with what result?
How could such breakdown been avoided?
What steps would you take to ensure that all accounting functions were ethical as well as legal?
How and to what purpose would each of those steps function?
How would company decision making be improved by those steps?
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