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Professional ethics in accounting and business

Corporate code of ethics

3.1 Corporate codes of ethics

Most companies, especially if they are large, have approached the concept of
business ethics by creating a set of internal policies and instructing employees to
follow them.

These policies can either be broad generalisations (a corporate ethics statement) or
can be specific rules (a corporate ethics code).

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