These assignments will be worth a total of ten percent of the final grade. Hopefully, this percentage will be high enough to motivate most students to preform well on these assignments without intimidating them. The primary reason for presenting these ethics cases as writing assignments was twofold. First, my students would be forced to use their critical thinking skills to analyze the situations, and second, they would become more proficient in their writing skills. As we are aware, a common complaint of employers is that our graduates are lacking in communication skills both written and oral.
Communicating is extremely important in our profession.
I feel that by including ethics cases as writing assignments, I am assisting our students in both their awareness of ethical issues and their ability to communicate. The ethics cases I presente are more likely to be encountered in the normal course of an accountant's job than some of the ethical issues that are reported in the media. Hopefully, by exposing our students to these types of more common ethical situations, we are making them more aware of and prepared to deal with all types of ethical issues when they become working, productive members of society. South-Western College Publishing. All Rights Reserved.