A Code of Ethics Should Reduce Opportunities for Employees to Conduct

question 27

True/False

A code of ethics should reduce opportunities for employees to conduct fraud if management emphasizes the cost and disciplines or discharges those who violate it.

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Definitions:

Malthus

Refers to Thomas Malthus, an English economist and demographer known for his theory that population growth tends to outpace the growth of food supply, leading to inevitable checks on population.

Indefinitely

For an unspecified or unlimited period of time.

Shrinking Population

A demographic trend where the number of individuals in a population decreases over time due to factors like low birth rates, high death rates, and emigration.

Prereproductive Individuals

Organisms that have not yet reached sexual maturity and thus are not capable of reproduction.