key parties who can influence, or will be affected by, your decision?

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SCENARIO:
You are the staff accountant of ABC Company. Your work is mainly focuses on Accounts Receivable
group. You record the accounts receivable and provide allowance for doubtful accounts based on
company's estimate. On Year 2012 the company suffered from loss due to environmental disobedience.
The DENR fine them 1M pesos for the infraction of the sea. With this, the company revise its policy of
recording allowance of bad debts from 5% to 2%.
The company has significant account receivable for the year and collection for this accounts are highly
possible. On your trending analysis report, you noticed that you rarely record and write off any bad
debts as part of the policy.
You join the meeting with the new accounting policy and Hilary, the CFO said that the decrease of bad
debts expense is immaterial to total accounts receivable. She insisted the accounting principles of
materiality.
Your controller agrees and immaterial to present the changes in the financial statements and ask you to
calculate the potential bad debts. You calculated the new bad debts and resulted to 120,000. The total
accounts receivable is 600,000.
I Who are the key parties who can influence, or will be affected by, your decision?
II. What fundamental ethical principles for accountants are most applicable and is there an apparent
conflict between them?
Transcribed Image Text:SCENARIO: You are the staff accountant of ABC Company. Your work is mainly focuses on Accounts Receivable group. You record the accounts receivable and provide allowance for doubtful accounts based on company's estimate. On Year 2012 the company suffered from loss due to environmental disobedience. The DENR fine them 1M pesos for the infraction of the sea. With this, the company revise its policy of recording allowance of bad debts from 5% to 2%. The company has significant account receivable for the year and collection for this accounts are highly possible. On your trending analysis report, you noticed that you rarely record and write off any bad debts as part of the policy. You join the meeting with the new accounting policy and Hilary, the CFO said that the decrease of bad debts expense is immaterial to total accounts receivable. She insisted the accounting principles of materiality. Your controller agrees and immaterial to present the changes in the financial statements and ask you to calculate the potential bad debts. You calculated the new bad debts and resulted to 120,000. The total accounts receivable is 600,000. I Who are the key parties who can influence, or will be affected by, your decision? II. What fundamental ethical principles for accountants are most applicable and is there an apparent conflict between them?
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