Your manager requires you, as the accountant, to enter each sale immediately. Re
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Your manager requires you, as the accountant, to enter each sale immediately. Recently, lunch hour traffic has increased at the jewelry store. To avoid service delays, the assistant manager asks you to take customers’ cash and make change without entering sales. The assistant manager says she will add up cash and enter sales into the accounting system after lunch. She says that, in this way, the register will always match the cash amount when the manager arrives at three o’clock.
Briefly provide answers to the following questions:
State one ethical concern that you have about the assistant manager’s request. Justify your answer.
What approach would you take to express your views on the request? Explain your answer.
Explanation / Answer
In this the main ethical concern is the instruction given by the manager is not followed.the assistant manager has given counter instructions to the accountant which puts the accountant in an ethical dilemma as to whose instruction is to be followed.Irrespective of the rush or business hours the accountant has to follow the manager's instructions and the book keeping is alwyas accurate when entered as and when there is a transaction.There is always a possiblity of error when we try to tally the accounts in the last in a hurry to submit the accounts.This can be avoided and book entry can be made as and when it is necessary.
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