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发表于 2013-3-30 20:31
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Just because its a common scenario for traders to knock eachother out on the floor doesn’t make it acceptable by CFAI standards dude. Lots of people do alot of stupid shit everyday, and if those people were CFA Charterholders or CFA Candidates they would be violating the code, plain and simple!!
Intentionally dodge state enforced law (even insignificant ones like paying traffic tickets) – violation black and white
Punch a trader in the face on the floor of the NYSE? – violation black and white
Don’t cite sources from the World Bank or other Government websites used in your report – violation (even though its in the public domain, you still have to give credit where credit is due. When you don’t, you are saying “this is my work and my ideas” – this is the violation.
Where you can get away with the non-citation is claiming a fact thats expected to be common knowledge or easily verified by anyone reading your report off a reputable website (like the Census Bureau or S&P). For example if you claimed that by your models calculation, company XYZ’s new product will be marketable to 10% of the US population of 307,000,000, you would not have to source that population statistic because its probably 1) general knowledge somebody reading your report and 2) it can easily verify it from many reputable public sources.
If you had detailed statistics used in model that you compiled from various government websites, even if they are in the public space they are 1) not perceived to be general knowledge and most investors would have difficult finding & verifying ALL the various statistics. To reiterate again, when you use all these statistics throughout your report, you are sending the message to the reader that it’s your work, when in fact its not. In this case you should give credit where its due, and DISCLOSE.
There is some degree of common sense you have to apply to ethics questions, the answers aren’t all black and white – this is definitely one of those. |
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But am definitely reading the original (CFAI Text)
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