Question

According to an SEC investigation, Computer Associates, one of the world's largest software companies, backdated contracts to boost the company's reported revenues. This is not prescribed as an ethical business practice.
a) true
b) false

Answer 1

The statement, "According to an SEC investigation, Computer Associates, one of the world's largest software companies, backdated contracts to boost the company's reported revenues. This is not prescribed as an ethical business practice." is True .

Option a

Explanation:

To thrive in the competitive world of business one has to have ethics in doing business.  By doing ethical practices in the business it will boost the image of the company before the customer and it will be helpful for them to compete in the market.

From the above statement even though it is the world's largest software company it has backdated the projects contracts period to show better performance in the revenues.

Even though the project are genuine but the moral responsibility in reporting revenues  to the investors take taken a dent by doing an unethical thing.