1. The ethical issues in reporting false or manipulated documents is it affects the company in long term. On the surface $1000 won't be a big deal but it affects the accuracy and authencity of the the financial statement , trail balance not matching suggests that some entries or cost are not appropriated to proper accounts . This will create a confusion or trouble in the long term . Because of time constraint she has knowingly reported false accounting statements which make this a legal as well as ethical issue.
2.The stakeholders of this decision are company , employees , shareholders and customers
the company would suffer in the long run due to inadequate reporting and could be penalized if identified by other agencies
the employees would also suffer because the mistakes have been made by them , and they had not reported the mistake , it could lead to penalty and and no promotions for the employees
the ultimate effect would be on shareholders who got false statements which could affect their decisions and their investments ,
the customers of the company would also suffer because company would have to make their equiment costly if financial statements are wrong.
3.The Sarah's alternative are
4. I would report this to my supervisor and ask him if he could help me with the issue , so i could try to meet the deadline , if its not possible then i would inform the management about my mistake and take the full responsibility of my action and ask them to extend the time of release of financial statements and would try to fix the trial balance as soon as possible .
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