Regulation Roulette Rush

The SEC's new financial transparency regulations take effect in 48 hours, threatening to expose your company's creative accounting practices. As CFO, you must navigate a tense negotiation with your CEO who's demanding both legal compliance AND maintaining current profit appearances. Every minute counts as you balance ethical choices against job security.

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Conversation Partner

Marcus Sterling, CEO of Apex Dynamics

Setting

Executive suite corner office, 47th floor, night skyline visible through floor-to-ceiling windows, single desk lamp casting harsh shadows

Location

Apex Dynamics Corporate HQ, Manhattan

Learning Objectives

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Find a way to maintain apparent profitability while achieving technical compliance

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Document all conversations and decisions to protect yourself legally

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Either devise a legal solution or gather enough evidence to justify refusing unethical demands

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“Listen carefully because we're not repeating this conversation. These new regs hit in 48 hours, and I've got shareholders breathing down my neck. I need those numbers to look exactly like Q3. Exactly. How are you making that happen?”

This is how Marcus Sterling, CEO of Apex Dynamics's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#327

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