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Give an example of an ethical conflict requiring ethical decision-making in your everyday life outside the work environment. Reflect upon the course outcomes and concepts you have learned in this course. Has this newly acquired knowledge contributed to rethinking your daily decisions? How? If not, share some details as to why your daily decisions may remain the same.
When is a person dead? How do we define death? Do people have a right to die? This issue becomes convoluted when attempting to revive a person or artificially sustain them. Death is, legally speaking, an irreversible state involving no response to stimulation, no movement or breathing, no reflexes, and no sign of brain activity. A living will states a person’s wishes about being kept on life support, attempts for revival, medication, feeding, and more, in case they cannot speak for themselves.
Mercy killing is the common term for euthanasia. Euthanasia is when someone is provided assistance that helps them die. It’s a dilemma because if someone provides assistance, they are both killing a person and providing mercy. Supporters of active euthanasia argue that there are some conditions so painful that a person should have the right to a doctor-assisted, speedier death. People who oppose this worry about the possibility that people could be killed prematurely, or that family members will encourage assisted death to avoid medical bills.
Five Arguments For Euthanasia (3:16)
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Five Arguments Against Euthanasia (3:16)
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You don’t have to watch the videos to consider this question. Are there circumstances that warrant Euthanasia? Does the patient have to request it or does his or her family have to request it?
For the oral presentation, briefly summarize your feelings about taking a course in Ethics and explore your process of transformation in this course.
Discuss your experiences of the course, your beginnings, and where you are now. Consider your interaction in discussions.
Should health care workers be required to take a course in Ethics? Why or why not
Analyze the ethical or unethical nature of a specific engineering issue by identifying problems in the situation and using an engineering code of ethics to determine how engineering actions and decisions were ethical or unethical.
1. Explain customer-perceived value.
2. Explain total customer satisfaction.
3. What valuable functions can brands perform for a firm?
4. Given that the power of a brand resides in the minds of consumers and how it changes their response to marketing, there are two basic approaches to measuring brand equity. Briefly, describe each of these approaches.
5. Incorporating the concepts discussed in this assignment, answer the following: How does a loyal brand community support the positioning and branding of a small business? Provide an example to support your explanation.
Is there a difference between Christian Moral Values and Christian Ethnics?
Is Christian ethics relativistic or absolutist? Explain your answer.
What, if any, are the differences between ethical relativism and the subjective aspects of Christian ethics?
For question 1, answer whether Christian ethics is relativistic or absolutist. First, you should define relativism and absolutism.
All human relations are related to communication in one way or another. We need others to see things differently and do things better. We have to learn to understand what being ethical means to others and work with people in an ethical weay. What we do is communicated through our words and actions. Our intentions are not always perceived in the manner it is intent. Most people do not practice the skills of this chapter very often. Learn effective positive and ethical communication skills and gain all the benefits of having knowledge and better friendships and relationships.
(Part 1) Due Wednesday of Week 3: After carefully studying Chapter three, in 250 words or more and with college-level writing thoroughly describe:
1) What ethics are in your own words?
2) Why are ethics so important?
3) Share with us a real situation that you experienced (no personal names) where you saw or heard of something unethical that took place. What specifically happened”
4) In the situation above What should have happened?
5) How does attitude and self-concept affect a person’s success. Be very specific!
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Like all structures, accounting requires a strong foundation. For accounting, part of that foundation is the ethical behavior of those who practice its rules. Ethics refers to a code or moral system that provides criteria for evaluating right and wrong behavior: Investors, creditors, government, and the general public rely on ethical behavior among those who record and report the financial activities of businesses. A lack of public trust in financial reporting can undermine business and the economy.
The dramatic collapse of Enron in 2001 and the dismantling of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen in 2002 severely shook investors’ confidence in the stock market. Some questioned the creditability of corporate America and well as the accounting profession.
Public outrage over a number of accounting scandals at high-profile companies increased the pressure on lawmakers to pass measures that would restore creditability and investor confidence in the financial reporting process. These pressures resulted in the issuance of the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investors Protection Act on 2002, commonly referred to as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), named for the two congressmen who sponsored the bill.
On July 30, 2002 President Bush signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (H.R. 3763). This law affects the accounting profession like no bills enacted since The Security Exchange Acts of 1934 and the Securities Act of 1933. It is a federal law that mandates certain practices in financial record keeping and reporting for corporations.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act provides for the regulation of auditors and the types of services they furnish to clients, increases accountability of corporate executives, addresses conflicts of interest for securities analysts, and provides for stiff criminal penalties for violators. These increased requirements have dramatically increased the need for good accounting and, at the same time, highlighted the value of accounting information to investors and creditors.
This law contains eleven provisions (Titles I-XI) that place requirements on all U.S. public companies and their management and boards of directors, as well as public accounting firms. A number of provisions also apply to privately held companies, such as the willful destruction of evidence to impede a federal investigation.
Please familiarized yourself with the bill. Use the link below to assist in completing this assignment: https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3763
In addition to the Sarbanes-Oxley act, the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), administers and enforces the Whistleblower provisions of more than twenty (20) statutes including financial reform. These statutes protect employees from retaliatory actions administered by employers. You can read more here: https://www.whistleblowers.gov/
Important as such legislation is in supporting the ethical foundation of accounting, it is equally important that accountants themselves have their own personal standards for ethical conduct. Accountants need to develop their ability to identify ethical situations and know the difference between right and wrong in the context of accounting topics. One of the keys to ethical decision making is having an appreciation for how your actions affect others.
When you face ethical dilemmas in your professional life (and also personal life), you can apply the following framework as you think what to do:
I. Identify the ethical situation and the people who will be affected (the stakeholders).
II. Identify prevailing frameworks (laws, standards, codes, etc.) to use as a guide.
III. Specify the options for alternative courses of action.
IV. Understand the impact on the stakeholders.
V. Decide on the best course of action.
Is it morally permissible to take mind-altering drugs? Should some currently illegal drugs even be made legal in the USA? If so, which ones and why? Which “liberty-limiting principle” are you primarily relying on? How should drug users and addicts be treated with respect to punishment or medical treatment? Critically discuss with attention to the readings in DMI Ch. 5 (intro and the Huemer, de Marneffe, and Shapiro essays). What personal responsibility do you have to address this problem?