You Are the Owner of a Small Internet Company

question 45

Essay

You are the owner of a small Internet company.You are planning a public offering in 12 months.You ask your accountant to prepare an optimistic business model that shows a greater profitability potential than a conservative estimate would produce.When the accountant questions your profitability assumptions,you remind him that he has been given 10,000 shares of the company stock at a low price.A public offering would dramatically increase the value of those shares.Discuss the ethical issues faced by the owner and the accountant.How should they be resolved?

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Definitions:

Explanations

Detailed accounts or statements clarifying or justifying something.

Journal

A detailed record where financial transactions are entered initially, in chronological order, before being posted to accounts.

Indented

A term not typically used in a financial or accounting context; it often refers to a formatting style where text is moved to the right from the margin of a document.

Withdrawals

Withdrawals refer to the amounts of money or other assets taken from a business by its owner(s) for personal use.