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Wanted: cases on ethics and fraud issues.


The AICPA AICPA

See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
 and the AICPA Foundation are jointly sponsoring the creation of a Web-based collection of cases covering the topics of ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a  and fraud, and we invite your participation in this project.

Our goal is to improve our members' and others' awareness, competence and confidence in dealing with difficult and possibly illegal accounting and business decisions. In addition, we hope to provide education to business professionals, the academic community and others on some of the ethical dilemmas An ethical dilemma is a situation that will often involve an apparent conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another.

This is also called an ethical paradox
 that arise in the executive suite and how they are resolved.

Cases must present common managerial ethical dilemmas. We encourage cases to be based on actual events but with fictitious names Noun 1. fictitious name - (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation
DBA, Doing Business As, assumed name
 in a style similar to the cases in the Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and .

If you are interested in writing a case or if you would like to partner with someone who will write the case for you, contact Roslyn Kessler at rkessler@aicpa.org for more information. Final case submissions are due May 31, 2002. Compensation is available for cases accepted.
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Date:Apr 1, 2002
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