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Ethical Decision Making Model - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️helps you actively
work through gray area and choose the best possible solution to an ethical dilema
Step 1: Recognize the ethical issue
Step 2: Gather the critical facts
Step 3: Identify the stakeholders
Step 4: Consider your alternatives
Step 5: Consider the effect on stakeholders
Step 6: Consider your comfort level
Step 7: Consider rules, regulations and laws
Step 8: Make a decision
Step 9: Document your efforts
Step 10: Evaluate the outcome
Step 1 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Recognize the ethical issue
Step 2 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Gather the critical facts
-you may not have all the facts, but you need the key ones (material)
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Step 3 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Identify the stakeholders
-who is affected by your decisions/actions
-consider as many as possible
Step 4 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Consider your alternatives
-approaches you could take to address this matter and resolve the ethical conflict
Step 5 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Consider the effect on stakeholders
-effect of each alternative
Step 6 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Consider your comfort level
-how comfortable are you with each option
-how would you feel if you have to discuss your decision in public
Step 7 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Consider rules, regulations, and laws
-rules set by AICPA, state accountancy board, state CPA society
Step 8 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Make a decision
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-take the time you need
-discuss with colleague, gain perspectives, counsel, don't be hasty
Step 9 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Document your efforts
-your understanding of the facts
-who you consulted with and their professional affiliations
-your decision
Step 10 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️Evaluate the outcome
-would you have done anything differently
Professional & Regulatory Bodies - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️set ethics standards
and rules for members of the accounting profession
State CPA licensing boards
AICPA
SEC
PCABO
IFAC
IRS
GAO
DOL
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