R1 ON THE EDGEWorldCom's Whistleblowerits profits by over $3.8 billion-an amount later raisedto $9 billion-in the greatest accounting fraud in his-tory. Sullivan and Myers were arrested; World Comshareholders lost $3 billion; 17,000 World Com work-ers lost their jobs; Arthur Andersen was shut downfor shredding evidence of other accounting frauds atother firms. Even today, many World Com managersand employees do not speak to her and she some-times cries. Says Cooper: "There is a price to be paid.[But] it comes back to the values and ethics that youlearn .... The fear of losing my job was secondary tothe obligation I felt."Doxibn March 2002, when WorldCom was struggling tocoordinate and integrate the complex mess cre-ated by the 65 companies it had acquired, World-Com's then highly respected chief financial officer,Scott Sullivan, moved $400 million from a reserveaccount and recorded it as "income" in the compa-ny's public financial reports. Alerted to this, CynthiaCooper, the perfectionist head of World Com's in-ternal audit department, began to secretly examinethe company's books at night. She soon discoveredthat Scott Sullivan (named a "best CFO" by CFOMagazine in 1998) and David Myers, World Com'scontroller, for years had publicly reported billionsof dollars as "capital expenditures" when they werereally operating costs, ignored uncollectible receiv- 1. Which of Kohlberg's six stages of moraldevelopment would you say that CynthiaCooper had reached? Explain.ables, and reported as "income" what were reallyreserve funds, and did all this with the help of ArthurAndersen, the company's auditor and accountingfirm. Though angrily threatened by Sullivan, andrisking her job and career, on June 20, 2002, an ap-prehensive Cooper courageously met with the auditcommittee of WorldCom's board of directors and toldthem what had been going on. On June 25, World-Com's directors announced the company had inflated2. Do her actions and motives support orundermine Carol Gilligan's views? Whatwould you say is unique about her orwhat she did?3. How does William Damon's theory ofmoral identity apply to Cynthia Cooper?Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Alamy*WORLD

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R1 ON THE EDGEWorldCom's Whistleblowerits profits by over $3.8 billion-an amount later raisedto $9 billion-in the greatest accounting fraud in his-tory. Sullivan and Myers were arrested; World Comshareholders lost $3 billion; 17,000 World Com work-ers lost their jobs; Arthur Andersen was shut downfor shredding evidence of other accounting frauds atother firms. Even today, many World Com managersand employees do not speak to her and she some-times cries. Says Cooper: &#34;There is a price to be paid.[But] it comes back to the values and ethics that youlearn .... The fear of losing my job was secondary tothe obligation I felt.&#34;Doxibn March 2002, when WorldCom was struggling tocoordinate and integrate the complex mess cre-ated by the 65 companies it had acquired, World-Com's then highly respected chief financial officer,Scott Sullivan, moved $400 million from a reserveaccount and recorded it as &#34;income&#34; in the compa-ny's public financial reports. Alerted to this, CynthiaCooper, the perfectionist head of World Com's in-ternal audit department, began to secretly examinethe company's books at night. She soon discoveredthat Scott Sullivan (named a &#34;best CFO&#34; by CFOMagazine in 1998) and David Myers, World Com'scontroller, for years had publicly reported billionsof dollars as &#34;capital expenditures&#34; when they werereally operating costs, ignored uncollectible receiv- 1. Which of Kohlberg's six stages of moraldevelopment would you say that CynthiaCooper had reached? Explain.ables, and reported as &#34;income&#34; what were reallyreserve funds, and did all this with the help of ArthurAndersen, the company's auditor and accountingfirm. Though angrily threatened by Sullivan, andrisking her job and career, on June 20, 2002, an ap-prehensive Cooper courageously met with the auditcommittee of WorldCom's board of directors and toldthem what had been going on. On June 25, World-Com's directors announced the company had inflated2. Do her actions and motives support orundermine Carol Gilligan's views? Whatwould you say is unique about her orwhat she did?3. How does William Damon's theory ofmoral identity apply to Cynthia Cooper?Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Alamy*WORLD

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Which of Kohlberg's six stages of moral development would you say that Cynthia Cooper had reached? Explain.