o:After doing an account analysis of cost estimation and giving the results to your boss, you discovered an error in the supporting data. In 6 out of the 24 months of data you had accidentally dropped off the last three 000's from the costs. Therefore, you thought $10,000,000 was only $10,000. You informed your boss about the error, they had already passed on the data to the CFO who was going to use it in a presentation to the board of directors tomorrow. Your boss does not want to tell the CFO about the error. What do you do?

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Mariela Wong

4 November, 17:12

o:After doing an account analysis of cost estimation and giving the results to your boss, you discovered an error in the supporting data. In 6 out of the 24 months of data you had accidentally dropped off the last three 000's from the costs. Therefore, you thought $10,000,000 was only $10,000. You informed your boss about the error, they had already passed on the data to the CFO who was going to use it in a presentation to the board of directors tomorrow. Your boss does not want to tell the CFO about the error. What do you do?

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Amya Berry · Answer 1

Answer: I will insist

Valerie Cross · Answer 2

it ethical and wise to inform the top executive about the error.

Explanation:

mistakes like this one cannot be hidden and the top executive should know because if the top executive presents the analysis results and finds out that it is wrong, they gonna take action against the boss and the person who was preparing the analysis.

Therefore, it ethical and wise to inform the top executive about the error.