Give the ways we avoid facing ethical dilemmas
Give it a different label:
Copyright infringement vs. peer-to-peer file sharing
Smoothing earnings vs. cooking the books
Lying vs. earnings management
Rationalizations:
(1) Everybody else does it
(2) If we don't do it, someone else will
(3) That's the way it has always been done
(4) We'll wait until the lawyers tell us it's wrong
(5) It doesn't really hurt anyone
(6) The system is unfair
(7) It's a gray area
(8) I was just following orders
(9) We all don't share the same ethics
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
An analyst can view the revenues to cash ratio as a ________________________________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
When a communicator substitutes a bland or less direct expression to refer to a word that is not often used publicly, such as words associated with sexual relations or bodily functions, the communicator is using a(n) ______.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Once financial statements are made public, the external analysis of the company begins by ________
A) financial analysts B) certified tax planners C) the advertising department D) All of these