A. Rebecca Landin is responsible for recording all the transactions for Marshall
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Question
A. Rebecca Landin is responsible for recording all the transactions for Marshall’s Home Care. This is Rebecca's first job as a staff accountant, and she wants to do a good job. Last week, she recorded several cash payments for bills in the computerized accounting information system. She now realizes that she selected the incorrect cash account. She selected the savings account instead of the checking account. Rebecca knows that she could go back into each transaction and make correction without anyone knowing that she made the mistake, but she is unsure of what to do. Should Rebecca make the correction?
B. Is it ethcical if she changes it without anyone noticing? Or should she tell her boss and then fix the mistake?
Explanation / Answer
A) Rebecca Landin is responsible for recording all the transactions for Marshall’s Home Care, so it is the duly of Rebecca to keep the recording and the accuracy of the transactions upto mark, whether someone / her boss know her activities or not. So, doing the correction without anyone knowing about her mistakes, is correct on the part of the Rebecca. The reason is simple that if you made some mistake, it is your duly to correct it without anyones knowledge. In the present case, Rebecca can go back to the entries with the mistakes and correct the cash account from saving to checking account.
B) Yes, it is within the ethics of employees working that he or she corrects his/her mistakes without anyones knowledge of the same. This is because boss requires work from her in correct order. She will correct the mistakes in good faith, so there is nothing wrong in such correction. So, she is not required to tell her boss and then fix the mistake.