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Hot potato: this month's dilemma.

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I have been asked to conduct an activity-based costing with a very short deadline and too few resources. I think that our CEO may be planning to use this information to restructure the company-including making redundancies. I am not confident that this work will be robust enough, given the timescale, to inform such a big business decision, but feel under pressure to "deliver".

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Our response:

At the moment you're not sure how your CEO wishes to use the information, and in relation to ethical dilemmas you should try to work from facts. However, you have been asked to do something that may undermine your obligations of professional competence and due care, given the insufficient timeframe and inadequate resource for the proper performance of the duty. You should raise your concerns verbally with your line manager and/or CEO and follow up by email so that everyone's expectations are clarified. By explaining possible consequences, try to seek agreement for both a longer timeframe and further resources to...

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