Jane, the store manager of Comfort Futons, notice that the amount of time the two bookkeepers were spending on accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash receipts was increasing due to the store's increase in sales. A friend of Jane's who is also a store manager suggested that she might want to have some special journal designed that would reduce the amount of work involved in the day-to-day bookkeeping at her store. Jane approached her bookkeepers and asked them to come up with a proposal for special journals. During lunch, the bookkeepers discussed that this would be a lot of work and Bookkeeper A indicated this was not in his job description. Bookkeeper B told him not to worry because she would just copy pages of special journals from her accounting textbook and they could submit them as their own design. They agreed and made plans to scan the journals into word, and submit them to Jane the following morning.

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

2) In using the special journals from the accounting textbook, what possible problems can you foresee?

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