Now it is time to discuss the purpose for AICPA’s code, why it is considered the foundation of ethical reasoning, and its most important purposes. The purpose of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct is to, “represent the expectations for CPAs on the part of the public in performance of professional services,” (Mintz, S. & Morris, R. 2011. p. 14). Currently the majority of CPAs belong to the AICPA; so the fact that the code of professional conduct has been established and accepted by the members themselves, it is considered as the foundation of ethical reasoning in accounting. Principles of the Code reflect the member’s recognition and understanding of its responsibilities to the public, clients and other CPAs. They are used to keep members focused on
By looking at a sheet of paper you can tell my life’s story? Instead of telling you about my accomplishments in a mere 17 years how about I tell you who I am, and what shapes me as a man. Honor is my foundation, without it everything else deteriorates. Leadership is my ability to make the decisions, but more importantly make them for the good of the many. Honesty builds trust with the people who follow leadership.
Personal Ethics Development University of Phoenix PHL323 July 25, 2013 Personal Ethics Development In this assignment I will examine my personal ethical system and ground rules including where they originated from. Also I will identify my personal ethical system and discuss the events that helped shape my ethics. Last, I will discuss how my ethical system has an effect in my workplace. First, I will define what “ethics” is. According to Dictionary.com (2013), “Ethics is a system of moral principles; the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group or culture; moral principles, as of an individual; or that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.” There are factors that contribute to the development of personal ethics.
When one tells a lie no matter how insignificant it is, they lose their integrity because it becomes harder for people to trust them. People usually suffer consequences for being honest but they are more likely to be trusted compared to those who lie. Living by the honesty policy also gives one self confidence. Honest people trust themselves more compared to people who lie. Trust is very important for cultivating respect which is why honest people command greater respect in society compared to dishonest people.
In this lens it is taught to focus on the processes, and the systems needed for an ethical organization. The difference between the first two lens discussed is that the Right and Responsibility Lens, and the Results lens focused on the individual, the Relationship lens focuses on the community. However in the relationship lens it has a few more concerns, such as how to protect the basic liberties of all people. These liberties are broken down into rights such as; The right to notice, The right to voice, not to veto, The right to have contracts honored. The Relationship Lens helped influence my decision by giving us a process by which basic liberties can be protected.
I was surprised that my blind spot was identified to be overconfidence in process because I rarely feel confident in anything. My values were described to be justice and fortitude and resultant behaviors are that I demonstrate courage and steadiness in the face of obstacles and I tend to avoid rash actions. My ethical lens directs my academic behavior by giving me good reasoning skills and allowing me to think through problems carefully and research all options. My ethical lens influences my critical thinking because it allows me to make informed decisions that I find are best for the well-being of everyone around me. I believe that a person’s emotions can influence critical thinking because some people’s ethical lens is more heartfelt and can let them make decisions with their emotions instead of with their knowledge and brain.
Within an ordinary day of any individual on earth, one might encounter trust and ethics without even perceiving it. For instance, hypothetically, when a person tells someone a secret, the person deems that the listener is trustworthy of knowing that certain piece of information. In response, if the listener has superior ethics as a reliable friend, then he or she would not tell another soul what was supposed to be kept unknown to others. Obviously, there are unquestionably innumerable of other ways, rather than just secrets, that people may stumble upon the correspondence of faith and morals on a daily basis. This leads to how numerous of people may consider being the fundamentals of relying on another, which includes the moral values that they may live by.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.” (Mother Teresa, Brainy Quotes) “What’s most important to ethical life is the commitment to being a good and virtuous person. To commit yourself to becoming a virtuous person, you have to dedicate yourself to being an excellent human being.
Many professionals have created rules and guidelines to follow when ethical questions or dilemmas arise in the workplace. Interpreters have followed this pattern, as the RID and AVLIC have Codes of Ethics. Although these guidelines are helpful, they do not cover every situation. Interpreters must not only follow the Code of Ethics, but must also have strong personal morals as well as ethical judgment to be tested in the workplace. This essay will cover a situation in which an interpreter is faced with an ethical dilemma; whether or not to turn in a hearing student they catch cheating.
Ethical Awareness The four perspectives of ethics, virtue, deontology, utilitarianism, and relativism, differ in many ways. Some people strictly follow one theory or the other, but I use a combination of virtue, deontology, and utilitarianism. Each person is taught a set of values and morals based upon their beliefs, attitudes, and goals. When making ethical decisions, values and morals play a major role in the reasons behind the choice. It is the employer’s role to encourage ethics in the workplace.