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ACC 201 Week 2: Ethical Challenges in Business and Strategies for Prevention

An exploration of ethical challenges in business, focusing on accounting and strategies to prevent unethical practices.

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ACC 201 Week 2: Ethical Challenges in Business and Strategies forPreventionACC 201 Week 2 DQ 1 FraudDiscuss in general the ethical issues when employees are tempted to defraud their employer orwhen companies defraud the public. What sort of situations can lead to this behavior? What arethe costs of fraudulent behavior? What kind of controls can help prevent ethical problems? Citean example of unethical behavior (not necessarily limited to fraud) that you are aware of frompersonal experience or have read about that is related to business. After you have posted youroriginal thread be sure to respond to at least two other students’ original threads.Answer-The word “ethics” is derived from the greek word “ethos” which means characterideals and standards of behavior. Business ethics may be defined as set of standards or principlesgoverning the moral conduct of businessmen. It requires the businessmen to be honest withthemselves and with other. Business ethics refers to personal conduct and moral duty of businesstowards different sections of the society.Adulteration of goods. e.g., mixing of papaya seeds with black pepper, coloring of wood piecesand selling as turmeric, etc.Sale of spurious products, e.g., contamination of glucose bottles, plain water in injections, etc.Sale of duplicate products under popular brand names.Sale of products injurious to public health, e.g. charas, heroine, L.S.D., etc.Ethics may be defined as the study of moral behavior. It is concerned with standards of moralconduct as these are established and expressed through the behavior of individuals in an

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