Aaron works in the accounting department for a large manufacturing company. His manager instructed him to record a transaction in an incorrect manner to increase the revenue for the fiscal year. Aaron is pondering whether to report this issue to a higher-level manager. He is experiencing an ethical dilemma.

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Aaron works in the accounting department for a large manufacturing company. His manager instructed him to record a transaction in an incorrect manner to increase the revenue for the fiscal year. Aaron is pondering whether to report this issue to a higher-level manager. He is experiencing an ethical dilemma.
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Ethical Dilemma:

It is referred to a situation when a person has to make a choice between two  options which are contradicting to each other and neither are satisfactory.The decision maker faces this dilemma when the person is not able to make a choice.In business and in real life every individual may face this situation where the person need to make a choice which is neither morally or ethically correct.

 

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