AS Store.

AS Store is the retail sales and distribution centre of a major agricultural produce company called AS Corporation. It is a small store with just 30 employees. They include a President, Vice president, Controller, 2 Accounting clerks, 6 Sales executives, 10 Store keepers, and 9 truck drivers. Roshan, an accounting clerk, has worked there for 10 years and is liked and trusted by everyone. He is responsible for accounts payable and accounts receivable. The other accounting clerk, Ahmmed, is new to the company and is in charge of posting sales deals. He thinks Roshan is nice, but has a bad feeling about him.

A few weeks ago, Ahmmed and Roshan had to stay late at work to finish posting entries. Ahmmed noticed that Roshan had a lot of cash in his valet. He asked Roshan why he had so much cash. Roshan was nervous and said that he and his wife were going to buy a new television that night and he took the cash from the ATM during his lunch break. Ahmmed thought that it was a possible reason and never thought about that again. Last week, Ahmmed saw Roshan taking five 100 Riyals out of the cash box. hammed asked him what he was doing and Roshan said he was exchanging a 500 Riyal note for five 100s. Yesterday, when hammed was talking to Roshan he again noticed lot of cash in the pocket of Roshans jacket. hammed asked him why he had so much cash again. Roshan responded with a quick answer saying about winning the money at a race the night before. Ahmed knows that a number of customers have put cash deposits in the store this week. Also, Roshan never said to anyone at work that day that he had won so much money at the race. Ahmed strongly believes Roshan is stealing money from the company.

Questions:

1. Is there an ethical issue in the case? Why?
2. What should hammed do?
3. If you are the manager of AS Corporation, what will you do?