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An ethical puzzle
by PQ magazine
Try our professional ethics crossword
Read the numbered clues and enter your answers in the crossword below. If the answer is two words, leave an empty box to show the space. For instance, if the answer was ‘professional ethics’ enter your answer like this.
Professional Ethics
Have fun!
Across
4. Telling someone that you have reported them for a crime.
5. Another word for ethics.
8. Abbreviation for the person in an organisation to whom money laundering should be reported.
11. This crime could include using or concealing stolen money.
14. This threat could occur if you are checking your own work.
15. This threat comes about when someone is pressurising you into doing something you know is wrong.
16. This crime could occur when you are being offered a reward in exchange for carrying out an activity or task.
17. Abbreviation for the government organisation who deal with serious crime including money laundering.
18. The abbreviation for keeping up-to-date with relevant knowledge at work.
19. Meeting the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
20. This principle includes remaining neutral when carrying out tasks at work and not allowing any bias.
Down
1. The burden of proof in this type of law is judged on a balance of probabilities.
2. Someone who releases confidential information in the public interest.
3. This crime could occur when deliberately falsifying figures in a tax return.
Complete the crossword puzzle below
6. This threat could occur when you are asked to complete a task that you are not competent to do in return for promotion.
7. You are permitted to breach this principle if it is in the public interest to do so.
9. Social, economical and this are the three areas covered by sustainability.
10 The Public Interest ...... Act protects whistle-blowers in qualifying circumstances.
12. This threat could occur when an accountant is seen to promote one client or product over another.
13. This principle requires you to be open and honest in all business activities.
You will get the answers next month.
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