Question

Daisy Inc., a manufacturing company, is planning to invest in newequipment. Thomas, the cost accounting manager, was in favor as theinvestment had seemed profitable by his calculations. Later, he realizedthat some of the assumptions made were impractical and made theinvestment not as profitable as he had thought. He refrained fromdisclosing this information to management. In this scenario, which of thefollowing ethical behavior principles was violated by Thomas?
A. Objectivity
B. Independence
C. Confidentiality
D. Credibility

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is D. Credibility.

Explanation:

Thomas violated the credibility of his studies, because he omitted the error which caused a false expected result.

Credibility is that characteristic of certain things that make them credible, we talk about situations, verses or estimates of a certain presence. When we say that we observe the credibility of something we are making a measurement of what is credible and not facing a series of examples in order to make a comparison in this regard.