1. Read “Accounting for Anguish” by Gale Reaves (Fort Worth Weekly, 16 May 02), the story of an early
whistleblower in the WorldCom scandal. (The article is posted in Canvas.)
2. Write an essay (12 point font, 1‐inch margins, double spaced, 1-2 pages) that describes the moral
courage of Kim Emigh. In the first paragraph, describe a basic accounting principle that WorldCom
was violating.3 In the second paragraph, answer the question of whether internal accountants are
obligated to project the public from misleading financial reports. In the third paragraph, speculate on
the personal value or principle that Kim Emigh defended by blowing the whistle, and answer the
question: Can one person’s stand for a principle or value make a difference?
More than a few term papers fail to include quote marks around direct quotes in paragraphs, with a
reference to the source at the end of the paragraph. This is plagiarism. Direct quotes must have quote marks.
“To omit the quotation marks is to claim – falsely – that the language is your own. Such an omission is
plagiarism even if you have cited the source” (Hacker 2003:421).
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