Ethical Challenges: Expense Fraud

You are an accountant at a company. Your responsibility is to oversee the company's expenses reporting.

You received an email from John, a manager in payroll department, telling you that he urgently needs to claim back $1,000$ in expenses, but his line manager is on leave for two weeks so is unable to approve it$.$ He asks you to approve the expense for him so he can get the money back quickly. He claims he needs the money to pay his rent for the month.

You ask John to confirm what the expense is for, and he tells you that it's confidential and won't say.

What should you do$?$

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