Final Paper

Joe’s Engineering, LLC

Adams Story

Congratulations on your recent appointment as the new Financial Manager for the Wyoming Field Office. As Financial Manager, you are responsible for the financial management of both the $500,000,000 project accounting and $150,000 internal operations budgets.

You and the new Field Engineer report to the office at the same time. The Field Engineer, your boss, informs you that he wants you to assume the responsibility for supervising all internal office operations, including the Accounting Technician and Computer Specialist functions.

You immediately become concerned about the latest internal control review. You begin implementing the internal control improvements recommended in the report. (Please refer to week 1 class discussion of Joe’s Engineering, LLC.)

Adam is belligerent and defensive. He always has an excuse for not explaining his procedures, and refuses to train a back-up for his accounting duties. You continue putting pressure on him to get prior approval of all expenditures, preparing monthly internal budget and individual project budget status reports. You send Adam and your Contract Accountant to a special “Accounting Reports” training session put on by Concordia Accounting in the Washington Office. Upon their return the Contract Accountant tells you that she and Adam had to share a computer throughout the training and that while Adam allowed her to observe the training, he would never give her access to the keyboard. This was in direct contradiction to your orders to Adam that he was to be sure the Contract Accountant was fully cross trained in downloading standard accounting reports and being able to create special request ad hoc reports. You inform Adam that he since we have a Computer Specialist he is no longer authorized to access the firms system from remote sites including his home computer. His privilege of flexible work hours, allowing him every other Friday off, were rescinded until you were convinced he had cross trained the Financial Specialist Contract Specialist in the Accounting System.

On Monday you inform Adam that he is move to desk by the front door and will cover for the receptionist any time she is away from her desk. He explodes walks out of the office. On Tuesday he calls in sick. Tuesday afternoon you move his computer and personal items to his new work station. Wednesday he returns to the office only to explode again upon seeing he had been moved “up front”. He tells everyone this is an insult and storms out of the building.