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This assessment requires students to critically examine two case studies and prepare a group report and a group presentation. The report must include a contribution made by each member and a statement that there was equal contribution from all members. Only the group leader is required to submit the report and the presentation slides on behalf of the group.You are required to make a group (3-4 members from your laboratory class – please email your group details to your lecturer for approval) to complete this assignment.1. CaseStudyI:“A computer company is writing the first stage of a more efficient accounting system that will be used by the government. This system will save tax payers a considerable amount of money every year. A computer professional, who is asked to design the accounting system, assigns different parts of the system to her staff. One person is responsible for developing the reports; another is responsible for the internal processing; and a third for the user interface. The manager is shown the system and agrees that it can do everything in the requirements. The system is installed, but the staff finds the interface so difficult to use that their complaints are heard by upper level management. Because of these complaints, upper-level management will not invest any more money in the development of the new accounting system and they go back to their original, more expensive system”(Source: ACS case studies 2014)Discussion Questions1.1 Identify the ethical issue related to this case.1.2 Relate ACS code of professional conduct to this case? Please use the relevant clauses to highlight theprofessional responsibilities to computer company towards various stakeholders.2. Case Study II:(10 marks)“A software development company has just produced a new software package that incorporates the new tax laws and figures taxes for both individuals and small businesses. The president of the company knows that the program has a number of bugs. He also believes the first firm to put this kind of software on the market is likely to capture the largest market share. The company widely advertises the program. When the company actually ships a CD, it includes a disclaimer of responsibility for errors resulting from the use of the program. The company expects it will receive a number of complaints, queries, and suggestions for modification. The company plans to use these to make changes and eventually issue updated, improved, and debugged versions. The president argues that this is general industry policy and that anyone who buys version 1.0 of a program knows this and will take proper precautions. Because of bugs, a number of users filed incorrect tax returns and were penalised by the ATO.”(Source: ACS case studies 2014) Prepared by: Dr Farshid Hajati Moderated By: Dr Sharly Halder May, 2019BN201 Professional Issues of IT Page | 3 Discussion Questions2.1 Identify the ethical issue related to this case.2.2 How can ACS code of ethics assist resolving this ethical dilemma? Relate the key ACS values that arerelevant to this case.

Sourav Kumar · Accepted Answer

Analysis of the case study
1.1 Ethical issue of the case:
There are three types of issues tagged to the case study. They are 
1. As the project is taken by the company is for the sake of the public welfare, primarily company should have focused on the positive outcomes of the project rather than indulging the commercial throughputs.
2. Staff should have acted accordingly so that the breach of the trust with their stakeholders and management would not have took place. 
3. Accepting the work which is beyond the competence of the resources of the company would result in a negative mark to the organization.
1.2 Connecting ACS code of professional conduct with issues:
ACS code of conduct refers to a code of ethics of a profession. This code of conduct has six core ethical values and associated responsibilities of each value. It usually applies to Information and communication technology professionals. The members must abide by these values and act with responsibility and integrity satisfying the societal needs.
Primacy of the public interest:
Although the interface turns out to be difficult to use, as it is associate with stakeholder and the public interests, staff should have not complained about the difficulty in the application of the process. As the developed accounting system is used by the government for the public which helps in reducing tax it brings lots of money saving economic environment. Hence potentially impacted customers by the work are stakeholders and the government. So developing the accounting software should done with utmost diligence.
“endeavor the confidentiality and the professional challenges with in the system ” as the software which is developed will be saving the taxation to the public and the result will be like a charity to the public from the side of government and indirectly by the side of computer company by accepting and performing the task by facing all the professional and also the technical challenges.

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