Please, write a main discussion post about the topic statement below and respond to the classmates discussion posts attached.
This discussion integrates Saint Leo University’s core value of Integrity.
The commitment of Saint Leo University to excellence demands that its members live its mission and deliver on its promise. The faculty, staff, and students pledge to be honest, just, and consistent in word and deed.
Discuss and explain the relevance of Integrity in the context of business law and accounting principles and methods.
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Instructions for main post (Around 200 words) Please, write a main discussion post about the below statement and respond to the classmates discussion posts. This discussion integrates Saint Leo University’s core value of Integrity. The commitment of Saint Leo University to excellence demands that its members live its mission and deliver on its promise. The faculty, staff, and students pledge to be honest, just, and consistent in word and deed. Discuss and explain the relevance of Integrity in the context of business law and accounting principles and methods. (Citations only needed for main post) Instructions for the two classmate responses (around 150 words each) Please, respond to the below two classmate main posts. (Please, the responses need to be a discussion, not an evaluation. You can agree with them and add/comment about their response.) Thank you Classmate post #1: Randie Peterson According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary online Integrity is defined as 1. A firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values: incorruptibility 2. An unimpaired condition: soundness 3. The quality or state of being complete or undivided: completeness (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/integrity). When it comes to Integrity in the context of business law and accounting principles and methods an individual’s integrity is a stamp of sound moral and ethical principles. Relationships built on the foundation of integrity demonstrates honesty, trust, honor, truthfulness, and effective interpersonal relationships with an emphases on value and illustrative will. Employers, customers, and stakeholders will seek individuals with fundamental values such as integrity. Individuals with integrity are characteristic of trustworthy and dependable which draws other people to them. Even when nobody is watching people with integrity will behave in honorable ways. To be an individual having a firm adherence to a code of especially moral values when practicing law or accounting will help to grow your career and ward off being a victim in circumstances where questionable behavior has been detected. Reference The Balance Careers. Heathfield,Susan. 2019 undated. What Is Integrity—Really?Honesty and Trust Are Core in Integrity as These Examples Demonstrate. Retrieved from https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-integrity-really-1917676. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/integrity. Classmate post # 2: One of Saint Leo’s core values is integrity which it is described as “the commitment of Saint Leo University to excellence demands that its members live its mission and deliver on its promise [where] the faculty, staff, and students pledge to be honest, just, and consistent in word and deed” (Saint Leo, 2019). Integrity is an essential part of any profession, and if individuals let external forces such as pressure, greed, or competition cloud their judgment, it will lead to unethical practices in their careers. Good companies work hard to build long-lasting relationships with their clients and shareholders and those relationships are built on trust. Professionals such as lawyers and accountants are obligated by their code of ethics to act with integrity which means to act in an honest way even when no one is watching. In the accounting profession, it is imperative to act with integrity since accountants are trusted with client financial and classified information that could impact the future of companies and their shareholders. If accountants decide to not act with integrity, it could become a disaster like the one Enron and WorldCom created in the early 2000s. These two companies decided to falsify their financial statement information to gain more investors, thus leading to the bankruptcy of both companies which negatively impacted hundreds of lives. References History & Mission. (2019). Saint Leo University. Retrieved from https://www.saintleo.edu/history-values-catholic-roots