Chapter 10 Text Questions

1) They fail to see that the majority of business dealings are ethical; if they weren't, businesses as we know it .....................?

2) Clever cheats keep silent about their dealings. A person who truly believes that there is no ethics in business is really just unscrupulous - and ......................?

3) For example, in a situation where doing the ethical thing will jeopardize profit, a businessperson with integrity will defer the pursuit of .............................?

4) The primary and only responsibility of business is to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages ......................?

5) Motivating forces are the psychological "...............................?

6) Motives are not the same as ....................?

7) Making a profit may be a necessary condition for business to survive, and it is certainly a motive for doing business, but .....................?

8) Good ethics is good ....................?

9) If you look closely at examples of unethical business behavior, you discover two things: .........................?

10) An accounting firm that cannot be trusted ................?

11) Thus there is a four-fold motivation for ethical behavior. Ethical behavior leads to (i) ..........................?

12) What is the number one take-a-way from the chapter?