have ethics got to do with accounting? The simple answer to this is as follows: EVERYTHING! What is ethics? A more relevant question to this essay would be what is poor ethics? “Poor ethics amongst a business' accountants means that those persons are more willing to break the rules to benefit either themselves or their business illegally.” (1) In this essay I will prove that the absence of ethics in accountancy not only undermines the very core principles of accounting which is to present fair
According to Gay &Simnett (2004), an audit is a systematic process of objectivity obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondences between those assertions and established criteria and communicating the result to interested users. Assertions are divided into six different categories. The existence of assets and liabilities at a given date, whether they actually exist and whether the transactions recorded are present
Compare and contrast the historical method of Thucydides with EITHER Herodotus OR Polybius. Thucydides and Herodotus are the original fathers of Greek Historiography and are considered the first two historians. Herodotus when compared to Thucydides the other Greek giant of historiography has been considered inferior by comparison. Both Thucydides and Herodotus discuss wars; Herodotus ‘The Histories” covers the Persian War wheresle Thucydides covers the “History of the Peloponnesian War”. This is