olleen Fernandez, president of Rhino Enterprises, applied for a $175,000 loan from First Federal Bank. The bank requested financial statements from Rhino Enterprises as a basis for granting the loan. Coleen has told her accountant to provide the bank with just the balance sheet. Colleen has decided to omit the other financial statements because there was a net loss during the past year. The accountant, Jim Long, only sent over the balance sheet to First Federal Bank Did Jim act ethically or une

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Colleen Fernandez, president of Rhino Enterprises, applied for a $175,000 loan from First Federal Bank. The bank requested financial statements from Rhino Enterprises as a basis for granting the loan. Coleen has told her accountant to provide the bank with just the balance sheet. Colleen has decided to omit the other financial statements because there was a net loss during the past year. The accountant, Jim Long, only sent over the balance sheet to First Federal Bank

Did Jim act ethically or unethically? Why?

 

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