The purpose of this paper is to evaluate ethics in accounting and financial decision making. I will describe how legal issues, ethics, and corporate social responsibility impact management within the organization. We may seem to be distant from the very high profile corporate ethics issues fo today. Today we hear about Marta Stewart, Scott Sullivan (CFO of World Com), and the family business bungling of Adelphia. We only hear about these cases because they are …showed first 75 words of 674 total…

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