Part 1: Check Your Understanding: Approx. 500 words total

1. Consider the functional departments reviewed in chapter 3. Which department do you think faces the greatest number of ethical challenges? Why?

2. Provide three examples of unethical behavior that you have observed at the company you work or (or worked for in the past). What were the outcomes of this behavior?

3. What are “Creative book keeping techniques”? Provide three examples.

4. Explain the potential ethical challenges presented by generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Part 2: Exercises: Approx. 400 words total

Complete the “Internet Exercise” on page 58 of Business Ethics Now.

Book: (Ghillyer (2012). Business Ethics Now, 3rd/E. McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 9780073524696)

Part 3: Case Study: Approx. 500 words total

Review Issue 5 from Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society. Which viewpoint do you side with? Why? Explain. Reference at least two outside resources that further support the viewpoint you side with.