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  • 31-05-2018 8:58am
    #1
    heretothere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭


    I am a very nearly qualified accountant, now working in industry as the sole accountant. I think I am still a bit green to the ways a business works.

    A customer we did work for last year now wants me to change the names on the invoices we issued to him. The director was laughing that 'your man is a sneak, he got them in the other name initially in order to claim off insurance, he now wants to claim some grant but the name needs to be his own now'.

    This seems unethical to me, but I have been 'over zealous' with my 'professional scepticism' so far, which is def a by-product from college! Would you change the name?


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  • #2
    tanit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭tanit


    If the invoices were used for claiming insurance previously changing the names might be insurance fraud and the client might get into trouble with the insurance company if they found out in the future and also your company for helping to commit fraud. But I don't really know the full story.

    Theoretically if he is genuinely requesting the grant and provides an explanation for the invoices being under a different name they might be happy with original ones. Something like they were under the wife's name and they need them to be under his name. That would only need an explanation and it shouldn't affect the grant process. That said if they were under a company's name and he wants them under his name it's completely different and you enter into what it could possibly be fraud with significant consequences.

    There are also the possibility of Vat consequences and others with the change of names if the original invoice was used for Vat purposes by him.

    Most ethical issues are legal issues and you are going to need all the facts. With what you are saying it's very difficult to say for certain


  • #3
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Lose a customer, lose your job!


  • #4
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,430 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    Lose a customer, lose your job!

    That is just scaremongering and not true at all. Sometimes there is good reason to let a client get services elsewhere.


  • #5
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    That is just scaremongering and not true at all. Sometimes there is good reason to let a client get services elsewhere.

    If your boss thinks there is a good reason.


  • #6
    heretothere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭heretothere


    It was a one off job, and tbh he's not the sort of guy you would want repeat business from anyway! My boss basically said feck him so I'm grand there.


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  • #7
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,605 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    Lose a customer, lose your job!

    This is where ethics comes in, some people have them and some don't.....


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