Blowing the whistle

Blowing the whistle
One of my very first managers, a Fellow of CPA Australia, taught me that to be a good professional in any business, you first had to 'learn the business'. He felt that until you personally experienced other aspects of a business outside your own area of expertise, you were not as skilled as you should be. Personal experience is the very best way to sharpen your perception and views on any subject.
And so it is with ethics, where there is a lot written on the 'theory', but less it seems, on how to address the issues in a practical sense. We also need to be very careful about taking the moral high ground because as human beings, we are not perfect. And we do make mistakes.
We as accountants do speak the universal language of business more so than any other profession and therefore should have little excuse for not knowing what is going on. Every time we read in the paper about a major corporate crash lately, it seems that somewhere in the equation, there is a que...