Tonya Latirno is a certified public accountant (CPA) and staff accountant for Kennedy and Kennedy, a local CPA firm. It had been the policy of the firm to provide a holiday bonus equal to two weeks salary to all employees. The firms new management team announced on November 15 that a bonus equal to only one weeks salary would be made available to employees this year. Tonya thought that this policy was unfair because she and her co- workers planned on the full two-week bonus. The two-week bonus had been given for 10 straight years, so it seemed as though the firm had breached an implied commitment. Thus, Tonya decided that she would make up the lost bonus week by working an extra six hours of overtime per week over the next five weeks until the end of the year. Kennedy and Ken- nedys policy is to pay overtime at 150% of straight time. Tonyas supervisor was surprised to see overtime being reported, because there is generally very little additional or unusual client service demands at the end of the cal- endar year. However, the overtime was not questioned, because firm employees are on the honor system in reporting their overtime.

1. What ethical issue, if any, is at stake in this case?

2. Who are the stakeholders?

3. What should be done to resolve this issue?