People encounter ethical dilemmas in everyday life. It is very important to analyze these issues thoroughly and made decisions cautiously because every act you made today will determine your future. I faced an ethical dilemma last semester, took place in one of my business courses, which forced me to choose between friendship and morality. At the beginning of the last semester, I made a friend in the class and soon became a good study buddy. We always sat together in the class and shared opinions on everything from school to life. As time went by, we got much more familiar with instructor’s rules and found out the class was easy enough to be self-studying at home. However, we are required to do clicker questions in lectures in order to receive participation points which count as 15% of total average. One day, because my study buddy wanted to take a day off school in exchange for an extra day of working schedule in his part-time job for more money, he asked me to do lecture clicker questions for him once a week. I was faced my day with a choice between helping my friend and sticking with honesty. At the end of the day, I decided to keep my morals and refused his request. Since then, such friendship had gone.
In analyzing this case, I firstly evaluated the consequences of selecting either choice. If I agree to help him and do clicker questions, both of us are violating the Bauer Code of Ethics which may cause serious consequences like getting an F for the course or expelling from school, and next time he may ask me to do other similar things because he knows I will help. Moreover, being an Accounting student, I shall strictly require myself to value the importance of morals and ethics. A record of cheating and being unethical on either of our transcript will definitely “kill” our career. If I refuse to help him, he may be very upset on me for being an unhelpful friend, and I may end up losing this friend. While I was weighing the...