Ethicality of Accounting and Auditing Activities

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Ethicality of accounting and auditing activities ETH/376 Ethicality of accounting and auditing activities United Thermostatic Controls is a manufacturing company that is publicly owned and markets residential and commercial thermostats (Mintz & Morris, 2011). As a publicly owned company, United’s common stock is listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (Mintz & Morris, 2011). The company is has different sales division and each division has different sale revenue targets that they have to meet and if the divisions do not meet the target the division managers will not bonus and share of corporate profits. Frank Campbell is the director of the Southern sales division; nevertheless the Southern sales regional economics is getting worse (Mintz & Morris, 2011). The pressure to accomplish the sales revenue target has created a stressful and unethical environment for Campbell. Campbell has pressure because he knows that he might not meet the revenue target for the fourth quarter. He starts to do research on the purchase orders that were received during the latter half of November and early December to determine whether shipments could be made to the customers before December 31 (Mintz & Morris, 2011). He knows that when an order is received before the end of the year it can be complete by December 31. So Campbell starts to manufacture and ship the orders to the customers so he could have the sales revenue contribution towards the fourth quarter. This action resulted in sale revenue to be 18.6% increase over the actual sales revenue for third quarter of the year and exceeded the budget by $80,000 (Mintz & Morris, 2011). The action caused the internal audit staff to question the appropriateness of recorded revenue of $150,000 on the two shipments that were made by the Southern division in the fourth quarter of the year (Mintz & Morris, 2011). When

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