The Ethical and Legal Obligations of Accounting Reporting.

Accounting is known as the Language of Business. The American Heritage Dictionary of the American Language defines accounting as activities that provide information, usually quantitative and often express in monetary units, for decision making, planning, controlling resources and operations, evaluating performance, and financial reporting to regulatory authorities and the membership. Here in the United States we have three forms of accounting practice: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and Certified Internal Auditors (CIA). …

…up to that individual to put into play all of the decent and honest qualities learned as in human being. Reference: American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language. (2000). (4th ed.) Retrieved September 17, 2005 from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=accounting Smith, Katherine T. Business and Accounting Ethics. Retrieved September 17, 2005. http://acct.tamu.edu/smith/ethics/ethics.htm. Social Science Research Network. (2005). Retrieved September 17, 2005. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=163068