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#Using this assignment prompt below and your knowledge from yourreading, come up with three solutions on how to handle the problem.Write 250 words paper#

You take any and every chance you can to get out of the officeand away from your phone and e-mail. You are the sales manager andyour team is outstanding at getting new clients! Recently, your newboss Ethan was hired. He is in charge of scheduling and he's theproduction manager. As your team negotiates new sales, Ethan hasthe final say on the contract. He has to determine if it ispossible to get the order out on time. Since he has started twomonths ago, Ethan always says yes to every order and promises thatit will be on time, but he has yet to deliver.

You have had to take every call from all of the angry customers.Some of the orders are a few days late, but recently some of themhave been up to two weeks late. Customers are upset that the orderis late and are threatening to go elsewhere! You are stuck in themiddle of the sales team and your boss. Everyone is upset exceptfor Ethan. Just last week when you tried to talk to him about it hesaid, "The customers should be happy they are getting a gooddeal."

This has to be taken care of soon or you will lose a lot ofbusiness because the customers are not just talking to you, theyare beginning to post on social media. You have been asked by thePresident of the company to find some solutions that you willdiscuss in the meeting on Friday. You have to have three viablesolutions for the problem. Think creatively, your team and thecompany are counting on you. You also have decided to start threethings immediately that don't need approval from the managementteam right away. Share those as well.

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Part 1

You have been assigned as audit senior to the audit of Universal Magazines Pty Ltd (Universal).Your firm has recently been appointed as auditors and this is the first time you have been on the audit.
Your engagement partner and the assistant auditor conducted an interim audit five months before this year end. There were no major issues at the interim audit and the assistant informs you that she thinks that the results of the audit are applicable for the full year.

The owners (i.e. shareholders) of the magazine are a private equity firm and have specified that audits should be undertaken. The company commenced business on day one of the current financial year when it purchased the business from its former owners. They have plans to merge the company with other publishing interests and list the merged entity on the Australian Stock Exchange in two or three years time. As an incentive to perform, the editor and senior staff have been given the right to take up shares in the new entity at a highly discounted price when it is listed subject to meeting their KPIs (key performance indicators) each year until the listing.

The magazine is a monthly giveaway and it is distributed in six areas of Melbourne. Its revenueconsists of advertising by local businesses. The sales director and her staff actively pursue sales
opportunities in each area.

Articles written by locals largely consist of reports on upcoming community events.

The Managing Director (MD) generally attempts to convince the local writers that the resultant publicity for their community event means that the article should be written for free. Most of the time he
is successful, and only about half the magazines’ articles are paid for. Prior to the equity partners taking over the magazine, any paid articles or photographs were treated as expenses to be written off as they were accrued or paid.

After the private equity firm took over the magazine, the firm insisted that all paid articles provided by external writers for upcoming issues would be considered as inventory until used in the
magazine and that they be valued at cost. If an article cannot be used after purchase (i.e. the restaurant for which a review was written has closed), then it is considered to be impaired and its value is written down.

The MD accumulates articles so that he always has a ‘bank’ of articles available for the next edition.

Advertising is mostly sold in three or six edition bundles. Occasionally there are a few one-off monthly advertisements, especially from seasonal businesses.

The magazine offers a discount to advertisers if they place orders early and the discount increases the earlier the order is placed (i.e. a bigger discount is offered if an advertiser wants an ad in next year’s magazine than if they want an ad in next month’s magazine).

Responsibility for invoicing the advertiser and recording the details lies with whichever member of the sales team lands the advertiser.

The company has an experienced bookkeeper who has been with the company for five years.

The financial director of the private equity firm, who is also a director of the company, regularly visits the company and conducts a few compliance procedures of his own. He has no formal audit
programs for this work but he has made his reports available to your audit team. He has told your engagement partner that he expects your firm to ensure that the year-end closing is accurate and
complete.

Required:
(a) Provide two (2) account balances and assertions at risk in this scenario.
(b) Explain whether you should accept the advice of your assistant auditor to accept the results of the
interim audit as applicable for the whole year

The year is 2020. Youjust got your dream job as a stock broker on Wall Street. They gaveyou a nice signing bonus and you are making a lot of money. Youalso have the opportunity to make a large year-end bonus if youmeet your sales quota. But your Boss has a reputation for firingnew employees that don’t reach those sales goals. Timing could nothave been better because your student loans are thru the roof andyour parents were just threatening to kick you out of the basement.You buy yourself a couple new suits, rent your apartment inManhattan and show up 30 minutes early to work ready to start yourcareer.

Your Boss, Mr. Moneybags, has you start cold calling people to get them to buy stock inTEXLA corporation. He says that TEXLA is a great new company thatis working on a new drug that might cure cancer. He failed to tellyou that the President of Texla is his brother-in-law. You startmaking sales calls and find out that the easiest people to convinceto buy the stock are senior citizens.

The first year youmake reach your sales quota and receive a 1 Million Dollars bonuswhich you immediately invest in TEXLA stock because it has beendoing so well. You also invested all of your parent’s retirementsavings in TEXLA. Later that year you accidentlyreceive an email that was addressed to Mr. Moneybags from hisbrother-in-law the President of TEXLA which informed him that thetesting shows their new drug actually makes cancer worse. You arethe only one who has this information and know that once thisinformation hits the internet the value of the stock will drop toZERO but no one will ever find out that you have this insideinformation. You also remembered from your awesome business lawclass that it is illegal to use “Inside Information” to benefityourself or your clients.

Your Boss will losehis investment, you will lose your investment, your parent’sretirement savings will be lost along with all of those seniorcitizens that listened to your advice.

You only have an hourbefore the news will hit the press which means you can’t calleveryone. What do you do?????

Identify theethical dilemma(s) in this situation.

REQUIREMENT

Use an ethical decision making model to determine theright course of action to take in thissituation.Use the Business Process Pragmatism as aguide for your answer.

BusinessProcess Pragmatism is :

  1. Step 1

    Inquiry

    First, the decision maker must understand the problem. This stepinvolves identifying the parties involved (the stakeholders) andcollecting the relevant facts. Once the ethical problem or problemsare clarified, the decision maker lists any relevant legal andethical principles that will guide the decision.

  2. Step 2

    Discussion

    In this step, the decision maker lists possible actions. Theultimate goals for the decision are determined, and each option isevaluated using the laws and ethical principles listed in Step1.

  3. Step 3

    Decision

    In this step, those participating in the decision making worktogether to craft a consensus decision or consensus plan of actionfor the corporation.

  4. Step 4

    Justification

    In this step, the decision maker articulates the reasons for theproposed action or series of actions. Generally, these reasonsshould come from the analysis done in Step 3.

The following case further demonstrates the types of situationsthat can occur when management demonstrates a lack of concern aboutethics.

5. Evaluation

This final step occursonce the decision has been made and implemented. The solutionshould be analyzed to determine if it was effective. The results ofthis evaluation may be used in making future decision

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