You are theManagementAccountant for a company which supplies baked food to a string of retail outlets; biscuits, cakes, savoury snacks etc.
You discover that a trainee employee, who is responsible for cleaning out the delivery vans has been taking damaged goods and packets which have reached their sales expiry date and has been selling them to friends. These products would otherwise have been discarded as waste.
The trainee in question is the nephew of one of the senior managers.
Zia is an accountant and wishes to take out a Forward Rate Agreement (FRA)as a hedging instrument. The company treasurer has advised that a short-term interest rate (STIR)future would be better.
R is a company running gas-fired power stations in Western Europe. The Risk Committee hasjust received a reportthata power station built to the same design and specification in a developing country has recently collapsed. The causes of the collapse are unclear,but if something similiar were to happen in Europe the consequencesfor Rcould be catastrophic.
Which of the following actions being considered by the Risk Committee are ethical?
COM is a well established company in the construction industry The company was founded by the Mac family 30 years ago and several family members still serve on the Board The company obtained a listing five years ago The Board has an appropriate balance between executive and non-executive members It also has audit remuneration and nomination committees The average age of board members is 68
COM is profitable but profit margins have been falling steadily and this year's revenues are lower than it was achieved last year The Board recognis thai it does not have a long term strategy in place and has been losing business to newer, more aggressive competitors
Which THREE of the following statements are correct?