Accounting ethics essay

 The professional is an Accountant. the ethical issue is whether creative accounting ie manipulating transactions and financial statements to show a desired outcome such as higher profits is ever acceptable.

Length: 2000 ±200 words
Submit after completing Unit 8 (approximately 22 weeks into the course).

Choose an issue in professional  ethics that pertains to a particular type of professional. Although the  issue you choose may have arisen from a specific situation you will not  be writing this as a case study as in Assignment 3, rather your  perspective will be more general in nature and similar to the  philosophical articles in the textbook and the reading file that you  have been reading.
Write a critical essay aiming to  resolve the issue you pose by considering a range of possible positions  on the issue.  In your analysis, you will defend and develop your  argument(s) in support of a position on the issue by considering any  relevant considerations that have bearing on determining the best  position from an ethical point of view.  In your analysis, you will  provide arguments and reasons that also show why the positions that you  reject are less satisfactory from an ethical perspective than the  position you defend. The argument(s) and reasons of your analysis will  include considerations regarding relevant factual claims, ethical values  and principles as well as ethically significant consequences or  implications of a position.  Again, you may make use of ethical theories  if applicable to the analysis but this is not necessary.  The goal of  this assignment is to defend the most ethically satisfactory position on  your chosen issue as well as showing why the alternative positions are  ethically less satisfactory.