Principles of Auditing & Other Assurance Services (Irwin Accounting)
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ISBN: 9780077729141
Author: Ray Whittington, Kurt Pany
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Explain the difference between the audit rules of public and non-public companies with respect to the independence of a CPA.
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- Assume that a CPA serves as an audit client’s business consultant and performs each of the following services for the client. Identify the threats to independence. Do you believe any safeguards can be employed to reduce the threat to an acceptable level? Explain.a. Advising on how to structure its business transactions to obtain specific accounting treatment under GAAP.b.Advising and directing the client in the accounting treatment that the client employed for numerous complex accounting, apart from its audit of the client’s financial statements.c. Selecting the audit client’s most senior accounting personnel by directly interviewing applicants for those positions.arrow_forwardThe audit committee’s responsibility for auditor independence concernsa. Ensuring that partners of the public accounting firm are not stockholders in the company.b. Ensuring that nonaudit services provided by the auditor do not impair independence.c. Reporting on auditor independence to the PCAOB.d. Ensuring that all nonaudit services are provided by auditors who do not perform the financial statement auditarrow_forwardWhich of the following is not a way by which the Sarbanes-Oxley Act attempts to ensure auditor independence from an audit client? Multiple Choice The auditing firm must be appointed by the client's audít committee. The audit committee must be composed of members of the client's board of directors who are independent of the management. Audit fees must be approved by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The external auditor cannot also perform financial information system design and implementation work.arrow_forward
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- Other than technical knowledge of accounting standards, etc., what other skills are critical for auditors and accountants who plan to engage in forensic accounting and fraud examination?arrow_forwardThe Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 prohibits public accounting firms from providing which ofthe following services to an audit client?a. Bookkeeping services.b. Internal auditing services.c. Valuation services.d. All of the above.arrow_forwardWhat are the ethical and professional expectations for CPA's by the accounting prefession?arrow_forward
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