Mr. Ahmed has recently completed his professional accounting certification and recently appointed as the junior...

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Mr. Ahmed has recently completed his professional accounting certification and recently appointed as the junior internal auditor for a XYZ multinational company. The head of Information technology of XYZ company asked Mr. Ahmed to undertake a cost benefit analysis of a proposed new software for IT department. As part of the analysis, Mr. Ahmed found that the new software is not appropriate to the present IT department servers and investing in the new software leads to an excess of costs over benefits.

You have been informally advised by Head of the IT department to prepare a favourable report for the new software to submit the management for investing in the new software. The Head of IT department indicated to Mr. Ahmed that future promotion prospects depends on the report for new software.

  1. Examine the ethical principles that should guide Mr. Ahmed as a Junior Internal Auditor when disclosing the findings of the cost benefit analysis for the new software.
  2. Let's explore a strategy for Mr. Ahmed to address and resolve the ethical conflicts he is facing.

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