Jane, the Comfort Futons store manager, noticed that the amount of time the two bookkeepers were spending on accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash receipts increased due to increased store sales. A friend of Jane's, who is also a store manager, suggested that she might want to have a specially designed journal that would reduce the amount of work involved in her daily store bookkeeping. Jane approached her bookkeepers and asked them to submit a proposal for special magazines. Over lunch, the bookkeepers discussed that this would be a lot of work and bookkeeper A indicated that this was not in her job description. Accountant B told her not to worry because she would simply copy special magazine pages from her accounting textbook and they could submit them as her own design. They agreed and made plans to scan the diaries into Word and deliver them to Jane the next morning.

1) Do you think this solution is unethical? Why or why not?

2) By using the special journals in the accounting textbook, what potential problems can you anticipate?

3) If you were Jane, how would you respond to the plan?