Your manager requires you, as the accountant, to enter each sale immediately. Recently, lunch hour traffic has increased at the jewelry store. To avoid service delays, the assistant manager asks you to take customers’ cash and make change without entering sales. The assistant manager says she will add up cash and enter sales into the accounting system after lunch. She says that, in this way, the register will always match the cash amount when the manager arrives at three o’clock.

Briefly provide answers to the following questions:

State one ethical concern that you have about the assistant manager’s request. Justify your answer.
What approach would you take to express your views on the request? Explain your answer.