For this assignment, you will create a personal ethical development plan that give you the framework and grounding you need to successfully navigate the meeting with Tricia and Bob, or to respond appropriately to any of the other situations listed above.

Your plan must:

$1.$ Identify and compare the professional ethical rules and legal rules regulating the profession of accounting. Opine on ways in which your own personal ethics may differ from the professional rules and legal rules governing accounting.

$2.$ Drawing on what you learned in the reading and case studies, what are some common ethical dilemmas you are likely to encounter in your chosen field?

$3.$ Compare and contrast the concepts of dignity, equity, fairness, and diversity from both a secular and Biblical standpoint.

$4.$ Identify ways in which you had incorporated in your ethical plan the six pillars of character and then discuss any deficiencies you see in the six pillars or your plan.

$5.$ Describe Rest$$s Four$-$Component Model of Ethical Decision Making.

$6.$ How would you incorporate Rest$$s Four$-$Component Model when solving ethical dilemmas in your professional career?

$7.$ Identify at least three key professional ethical$/$regulation issues for accountants? Reflect on how these issues might arise in your professional career and how this ethical plan will help you respond appropriately.

$8.$ Being ethical means having principles $($code$)$ that will govern what you will or will not do$,$ based on your understanding of right and wrong, and then sticking to those principles.

$9.$ Reflect on the results of $2$a through $2$g$,$ the ethical decisions you have made in the past, and the alignment between faith and actions$/$decision$-$making.

$10.$ Identify ten principles $(5$ professional and $5$ personal$)$ that will govern what you and will not do and serve as your ethical development plan.

$11.$ Next steps$/$action:

a$.$ How will you use your ethical development plan to respond to the key ethical$/$regulation issues for accountants?

b$.$ How will you use your ethical development plan better align your faith and actions with the concepts of dignity, equity, fairness, and diversity?

c$.$ How will you use your ethical development plan to strengthen any deficiencies your character?