Financial Accounting, Student Value Edition (4th Edition)
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780134114811
Author: Robert Kemp, Jeffrey Waybright
Publisher: PEARSON
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Justify the action of person J and also describe whether it causes any ethical concerns. Discuss whether the owner of Company L has problem with person J’s action.
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Dylan worked for a propane gas distributor as an accounting clerk in a small Midwestern town. Last winter, his brother Mike lost his job at the machine plant. By January, temperatures were sub-zero, and Mike had run out of money. Dylan saw that Mike’s account was overdue, and he knew Mike needed another delivery to heat his home. He decided to credit Mike’s account and debit the balance to the parts inventory because he knew the parts manager, the owner’s son, was incompetent and would never notice the extra entry. Months went by, and Dylan repeated the process until an auditor ran across the charges by chance. When the owner fired Dylan, he said, “If you had only come to me and told me about Mike’s situation, we could have worked something out.”
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Financial Accounting, Student Value Edition (4th Edition)
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