reasonable care in the performance of services. Answer: False Difficulty: Easy 2. Most of the burden of affirmative proof is on the defendant under common law. Answer: False Difficulty: Medium 3. The Ultramares v. Touche case held that auditors could be held liable to any foreseen third party for ordinary negligence. Answer: False Difficulty: Medium 4. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 offers recourse against the auditors to a
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Research Paper – Accountant Responsibility Introduction Accounting by definition is “The bookkeeping methods involved in making a financial record of business transactions and in the preparation of statements concerning the assets‚ liabilities‚ and operating results of a business” (The American Heritage). An accountant’s responsibility is not something that is equally split or separated by category. It is not something that can be defined easily or without a lot of research and thought. An accountant
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CHAPTER 4 Legal Liability Of CPAs Review Questions 4-1 There are several reasons why the potential legal liability of CPAs for professional "malpractice" exceeds that of physicians and other professionals. One reason is the vast number of people who may sustain damages. If a physician or attorney commits a serious error‚ the number of injured parties generally is limited to one individual patient or client. When a CPA’s report is in error‚ literally millions of investors
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Phar-Mor Case Study Phar-Mor Case 4.6 Questions 1. a) By hiring a member of its external audit team a company could gain insight into the auditor’s process and better devise methods of hiding fraud. b) Hiring a former auditor would greatly compromise and possibly impair the existing external auditor’s ability to remain independent. On top of having knowledge about the auditor’s practice‚ preexisting relationships could cause bias in the audit outcome. c) Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 limits the ability
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Based on - Auditing & Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach (7th edition) EXAM CHAPTERS: 1‚ 2‚ 7‚ 18‚ 19‚ 20 and 21 EXAM REQUIREMENTS: - Closed-book exam (no text‚ notes‚ etc.) - Limited to 90 minutes - Pencils and erasers (no calculator required) EXAM POINT DISTRIBUTION: Total Points 150 (50 Multiple-Choice questions) By Chapter: Chapter 1 = 15 points Chapter 2 = 21 points Chapter 7 = 6 points Chapters 18‚ 19‚ 20 and 21 = 27 points each EXAM STUDY APPROACH:
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Bibliography: Perre v Apand (1999) 198 CLR 180. Ultramares Corp v Touche‚ Niven & Co 174 NE 441 (1931). Textbook; Harvey‚ C and Mesiti‚ V (2009)
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They did not engage in actual or constructive fraud. (pg. 806) They had no information that would lead them to know that FAMCO was going to give the audit reports to Hutton‚ which Hutton used as a basis for purchasing loans from FAMCO. Under the Ultramares doctrine an accountant can
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2. A) A client can be put in a more powerful position than the auditor in an auditor-client relationship if the auditor is trying to sell the client additional services. B) According to SOX external auditors are prohibited from providing certain services to clients: book keeping or other things related to the accounting records or financial statements of the audit client‚ they are not allowed to design and implement financial information‚ appraisal or evaluation services‚ internal audit outsourcing
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Duty of care is the legal obligation that reasonable care must be taken to avoid acts with a reasonably foreseeable outcome of injuring another person. The concept of ‘duty of care’ was first recognised in Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 where it was established that a duty of care is created via proximity‚ or a relationship between the defendant and the plaintiff. This is known as the ‘neighbour principle’ ‚ which relies on combination of proximity and a reasonably foreseeable risk of harm
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|Case 4.6 | |Instructional Notes | | | |Phar-Mor‚ Inc.:
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