Walking the bottom line
Article Type: Literature and insights From: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Volume 27, Issue 5.
Your company is right on the moneyAnd stays out of troubleWhen everyone in the companyIs held accountable.
Making everyone accountableHelps you know whereChallenges are insurmountableAnd ethical failures might occur.
In other words:Without accountabilityThere is a possibilityFor bottom-line mentalityTo have ethics as its fatality.
Therefore:Make sure that all of the tricksHit your code-of-ethics bricksAndFortify your ethics wallWith proper sanctions and control.
Otherwise:You would leave your ethics codeIn the neutral modeAnd feel fineResting on your bottom line.
Ashley Burrowes
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Milorad Novicevic
School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi, Mississippi, USA
