Purpose: The purpose of your final discussion is for you to consider how criminal law and accounting intersect, how the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct addresses criminal behavior related to the accounting profession, and how you believe accountants can be prevented from committing white-collar crimes.
Instructions: Please post a brief reflection concerning the areas of this course you found most useful, especially related to your personal life, and if you are working, in your job as an accountant, auditor, or other employment role. Next, demonstrate your understanding of how the fields of accounting and criminal law interact and intersect by finding and summarizing one provision under the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct that addresses one or more of the criminal behaviors that we have discussed in this course. Finally, complete your discussion by including one suggestion for preventing white-collar crime in the accounting industry https://www.aicpa.org/Research/Standards/CodeofConduct/Pages/default.aspx