untry which can boast of large landed properties.  DreamCash & Co. receives about 20% of its income from this particular client.   Before last year’s audit, the bank engaged the audit firm to value its land and buildings in all its branches and headquarters. This work was executed by the audit firm and a report has been issued to management. The report has been incorporated in this year’s financial statements to be audited soon. DreamCash & Co. sees DellMax Bank Ltd. as a very important client whose works are always executed with dispatch. Required: 1. Identify and evaluate the significance of any threats to the Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants raised in the case. 2. Recommend safeguards to eliminate the threats (mentioned in (i) above) or reduce them to an acceptable level.

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DreamCash & Co., an audit and assurance firm, has been engaged as auditors for the DellMax Bank Ltd, a public limited liability company for some time now. DellMax Bank has sixty branches throughout the country and branches in Mali, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. The Bank is one of the banks in the country which can boast of large landed properties.  DreamCash & Co. receives about 20% of its income from this particular client.   Before last year’s audit, the bank engaged the audit firm to value its land and buildings in all its branches and headquarters. This work was executed by the audit firm and a report has been issued to management. The report has been incorporated in this year’s financial statements to be audited soon. DreamCash & Co. sees DellMax Bank Ltd. as a very important client whose works are always executed with dispatch.

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1. Identify and evaluate the significance of any threats to the Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants raised in the case.

2. Recommend safeguards to eliminate the threats (mentioned in (i) above) or reduce them to an acceptable level.

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