- 10 Marks
May 2016 – L3 – Q3b – Regulatory framework and ethics
Compare compliance-based and integrity-based approaches to ethical issues, and recommend steps to sustain value creation from an ethical culture
Question
As a Professional Accountant, you are regarded as an expert with specialized knowledge acting ethically and influencing others to do what is right whilst working to very high standards. When confronted with an ethical challenge or dilemma in a corporate setting, Lynne Paine suggests two approaches to the management of ethical issues in organizations – the compliance based approach and the integrity based approach.
Required: i) Compare and contrast the compliance based approach and the integrity based approach in the management of ethical issues. (6 marks)
ii) Discuss the steps you would recommend to your company to adopt in order to sustain value creation from an ethical culture. (4 marks)
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