{"id":2622,"date":"2020-08-25T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-financialaccounting\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2622"},"modified":"2020-11-22T22:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:42:45","slug":"introduction-to-challenges-in-accounting","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/chapter\/introduction-to-challenges-in-accounting\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Challenges in Accounting","rendered":"Introduction to Challenges in Accounting"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: identify challenges in accounting<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-2829\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5107\/2020\/08\/10220849\/circle-312343_1280-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Several hands of different skintones\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/>Accounting is not just math, it\u2019s the language of business. As with any language, it can be interpreted in many ways. This means that it\u2019s important to see it as more than just numbers on a page. But it also means that the information has to be created and used responsibly. For instance, if the bank asks you for financial statements before it loans you money, no matter what, you have to provide accurate, verifiable, and honest information. That\u2019s the ethical thing to do even if you think the bank\u2019s loan committee might not like what they see.\r\n\r\nEthics in accounting has evolved over the years along with the profession.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s move ahead so that you can gain a more detailed understanding of ethics in accounting and the significant events that have shaped the modern accounting environment.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: identify challenges in accounting<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2829\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5107\/2020\/08\/10220849\/circle-312343_1280-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Several hands of different skintones\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/>Accounting is not just math, it\u2019s the language of business. As with any language, it can be interpreted in many ways. This means that it\u2019s important to see it as more than just numbers on a page. But it also means that the information has to be created and used responsibly. For instance, if the bank asks you for financial statements before it loans you money, no matter what, you have to provide accurate, verifiable, and honest information. That\u2019s the ethical thing to do even if you think the bank\u2019s loan committee might not like what they see.<\/p>\n<p>Ethics in accounting has evolved over the years along with the profession.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s move ahead so that you can gain a more detailed understanding of ethics in accounting and the significant events that have shaped the modern accounting environment.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2622\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Challenges in Accounting. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Joseph Cooke. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Clker-Free-Vector-Images. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/circle-hands-teamwork-community-312343\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/circle-hands-teamwork-community-312343\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":19,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Challenges in Accounting\",\"author\":\"Joseph Cooke\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Clker-Free-Vector-Images\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/circle-hands-teamwork-community-312343\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2622","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6504,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2622\/revisions\/6504"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2622\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}