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Ethical Issues Can Be Described As Breaking The Rules

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Ethical issues can easily be described as breaking the rules, however an ethical issue is a problem that causes an institute or person to make a choice between what is wrong and what is right. In the case study, Mr. Arjmenian believed that the funding for the Pine Falls Regatta were being misused. Although there was not much detail provided as to why he believed this, I would think that the 100-page letter he sent to the regatta board of directors would offer much explanation. Also, it has been noted that he believed that Mr. Foster spent nearly $200,000 for personal use and could not explain large deposits to his bank account. With this information I believe that there were several relevant ethical issues to include theft, embezzlement, corruption, a conflict of interest and whistleblowing. You could also say that these ethical issues are directly related to both lying and deception. Employee theft is a very common workplace ethics violation, as is embezzlement. With very similar definitions theft is the stealing of another person’s property. California law describes embezzlement as “the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it was entrusted.” Essentially, embezzlement is the use of something (money in this case) in a way other than the owner intended it to be used. I would say this case involved both theft and embezzlement. Theft in the form of state, local and county funds and embezzlement through the misuse of these fund. This case doesn’t

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