Scot Justice, an assistant professor of accounting at Appalachian State University, recently published a practitioner article in The CPA Journal entitled “Considering the Longer-Term Effects of Letting Star Employees Get Away with Ethical Violations.”
Justice worked in collaboration with Dr. Dana Hermanson of Kennesaw State University to explain how leniency with star employees can lead to average employees being more likely to get away with similar ethical violations, greatly weakening the control environment and increasing fraud risk.
The researchers also convey the implications of such leniency with star employees for CPAs in corporate, not-for-profit and audit settings.
The work builds upon an article the authors published in 2018 in the Journal of Forensics and Investigative Accounting.
The article was published in the April/May 2021 edition of the CPA Journal which is published by the New York State Society of CPAs; you can read it in full at www.cpajournal.com.
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June 24, 2021
Marisa Shadrick
BOONE, N.C.
Accounting professor's research advises on effects of leniency in the workplace
Scot Justice