Accountants in the industry are often key to the planning and control processes of their organizations. These accountants may find themselves faced with the dilemma of whether or not to blow the whistle on an organizational wrongdoing. Some people, both inside and outside the profession, would view the accountants’ decision to blow the whistle as morally and professionally justifiable; while others would see it as harmful to the employing organization and would advise against doing so.

- Money laundering
- Tax evasion
- Data protection breach
- Employees stealing organization funds and/or properly.
- Employees accepting bribes or kickbacks.
- Employees abusing their official position to obtain substantial personal services of favors.
- Employees giving unfair advantage to a contractor, consultant, or vendor.
- Employees creating or tolerating a situation that poses a danger to public health or safety.
- Management permitting development or production of unsafe products.
- Management permitting development or production of products not in compliance with government regulations.
- Management covering up poor performance, whether financial figures or non-financial figures.
- Management making overly optimistic and false projections of future performance.
- Management permitting working conditions that could endanger the safety of or cause physical harm to employees.
- Employees creating or tolerating unsafe working conditions.
- Waste of organizational assets caused by inappropriate parties receiving money, goods, or services.
- Waste caused by the purchase of unnecessary or deficient goods or services.
- Waste of organizational assets caused by poorly managed organizational operations.
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