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Business ethics
The role of the accountant
A management accountant’s role is to provide crucial information that
forms the basis of decision-making in an organisation.
Unethical behavior impacts on:
jobs
financial viability
tax-payers’ money wasted or misused.
Public interest
Common well-being or general welfare of society.
Professional accountant has wider duty to act in the best interests of the public at
large, as well as to the business and its owners.
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