All of the following tend to be rationalizations for fraud except:
a. We need to protect the shareholders and keep the stock price high b. All companies use aggressive accounting techniques
c. The employee will be fired unless s/he goes along with the fraud
d. We are correcting a temporary problem that will not exist in the future

c. The employee will be fired unless s/he goes along with the fraud

Explanation: Fraud in the corporate environment is when an individual acts on his own or one/group of people act on behalf of an organisation to deceive others in order to get some form of financial gain.

For fraud to occur, there has to be an opportunity to commit fraud, an incentive and a rationalization which makes the fraud seem alright.

When Fraud is committed on behalf of an organisation, some of the rationalizations used are: protecting the shareholders, everyone else does it and viewing it as a temporary measure. Any of these applies to fraudulent accounting practices where the accounting statements do not truly reflect the operations of the business.

i thought a 14 year old should know this but

colonies   were tied to britain through trade and by the way they were governed.   trade was restricted so the colonies had to rely on britain for imported goods and supplies.   there were no banks and very little money, so colonists used barter and credit to get the things they needed.  

britain also needed money to pay for its war debts.   the king and parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies.   they decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to pay for the french and indian war.   these taxes included the stamp act, passed in 1765, which required the use of special paper bearing an embossed tax stamp for all legal documents.   other laws, such as the townsend acts, passed in 1767

this mainly outraged the colonies and created what we know as today as the american revolutionary war

answer; i believe that the correct answer is (c) ///