Business Ethics
BMGT 1314-3001
Semester II-2016
Professor: John E. Burn
ID: 7056028

Assignment # 1: An ethical dilemma

1.) Identify the issues Sophie has to resolve.
A: According to my point of view, Sophie has to resolve and deal with four ethical issues.
1. The importance of accurately filling out expense vouchers: Sophie works for a company that has a strict policy for expense vouchers, has to complete the expense vouchers according to the company’s policy in order to report her expenses correctly. However, Sophie is stressed because during the sales training course, she learned that the expense vouchers are very important and they should be completed as the company indicates.
2. Not enough space to write miscellaneous expenses as tipping waiters, cab drivers, etc.: According her mentor, Emma, the salespeople complain because the expense vouchers don’t have enough space for the extra tip that she normally gives to waiters, cab drivers, bell hops, airport baggage handles, and else. Apparently the expense vouchers just only contain the basic space for the basic expenses as lodging, airfare, and meals.
3. Paradigms about expense report form.: The accounting supervisor maintains the same report during the time, but the expense vouchers don’t give the salespeople that they need, more space, and obviously the accounting supervisor doesn’t like the salespeople because he told Emma that they are overpaid. This point doesn’t have relation with the request that Emma did. But Sophie and Emma have to complete their expense vouchers with the space that the report actually has.
4. Include in her expense report the miscellaneous expenses using cab drivers blank receipts: This point is generating in Sophie questions about following company policies because she knows that report miscellaneous expenses as cab drivers receipts are against company policy and