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Read at least four of the seven related articles located in the online Brenau Trustee Library, LibGuides/Accounting/Financial Statement and business Analysis AC755. Links to an external site.
You are asked to contemplate and analyze this case by writing detailed and insightful answers to the 10 questions. You are NOT to just Q&A. (This means don’t include your questions as headings. Just work your answers into paragraphs that flow from one question to the next!) You are to construct your paper in good form, using each question as a separate paragraph(s) in the body of the paper. Read and synthesize the information and explain and discuss it in your own words. Do not quote the articles, but DO include citations in the body of the paper and at the end on the References page.
Mitchell and Yordy (2010) provide a framework called FIAS – COVERto guide you through ethical dilemmas such as the one we pose here. The acronym stands for First I Ask Some questions about Facts, Issues, Alternatives, and Stakeholders to COVERmy bases. The COVER part of the acronym stands for addressing questions about Codes, Outcomes, Values, Editorial, and Rules.
With this case, the facts, issues, alternatives and stakeholders have been provided for you. So for this case analysis you will want to consider the following:
C: the legal and regulatory codesthat apply for how accounting professionals report earnings.
O: the outcomesof the decision considering the pros and cons of different earnings reporting scenarios.
V: the duties or obligations of accounting professionals based on their individual valueswith respect to earnings reporting.
E: the editorialaspects of the decision or what will hit the news, social media, etc. with respect to adjustments to earnings reporting.
R: this decision as the rulefor all other similar earnings management decisions that follow for these stakeholders.
Yordy, Eric D. and Mitchell, Jennifer, Cover it: A comprehensive framework for guiding students through ethical dilemmas (January 1, 2010). 27 J. of Legal Studies Ed. 35 (Winter 2010) , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2050655Links to an external site.
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