Accounting Ethics - Really Need Some Help Please
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I would really, really appreciate if any of you that have studied the Accounting Ethics unit (32) could give me some advice.
In my Kaplan study text an ethical dilemma is defined as the following:
..an ethical problem in which the ethical choice involves ignoring a powerful non-ethical consideration (ie you have to choose between the right or ethical option and the option which will benefit you in some way but is not ethical).
However, further down the page the book states that the four characteristics of an ethical dilemma are as follows:
1) There must be at least two courses of action from which a choice must be made as to the action to be taken.
2) There must be significant consequences for taking either course of action.
3) Each of the courses of action can be supported by one or more ethical principles.
4) The ethical principles supporting the unchosen course of action will be compromised.
This third characteristic seems to contradict the description of the ethical dilemma mentioned above in that it says that 'each' of the opposing choices must be supported by ethical principles, whereas in the description one choice is the ethical choice and one choice is a non-ethical choice.
Could anyone advise me on this?
Many thanks.
CelticStar
In my Kaplan study text an ethical dilemma is defined as the following:
..an ethical problem in which the ethical choice involves ignoring a powerful non-ethical consideration (ie you have to choose between the right or ethical option and the option which will benefit you in some way but is not ethical).
However, further down the page the book states that the four characteristics of an ethical dilemma are as follows:
1) There must be at least two courses of action from which a choice must be made as to the action to be taken.
2) There must be significant consequences for taking either course of action.
3) Each of the courses of action can be supported by one or more ethical principles.
4) The ethical principles supporting the unchosen course of action will be compromised.
This third characteristic seems to contradict the description of the ethical dilemma mentioned above in that it says that 'each' of the opposing choices must be supported by ethical principles, whereas in the description one choice is the ethical choice and one choice is a non-ethical choice.
Could anyone advise me on this?
Many thanks.
CelticStar
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