(a) Under the provisions of APES 110 code of ethics for professional accountants it is the responsibility of auditors to comply with competence and due care principles while discharging there duties. The case study states that Berowra Accountants are providing a special advertisement through which they are guarantee tax refund to clients. The difference between tax which is owed by the company and tax which has been paid is known as tax refund. In order to find out whether a company is eligible for tax refund or not tax expenses income and profit of the company has to be taken into account. Thus a guarantee in relation to tax refund cannot be provided by auditors. The primary responsibility of auditors is to report non compliance issue and any misstatements towards the financial of a statement. Providing services in relation to tax refund are not within the scope of their professional duties. Therefore in this situation they have violated the principles of section 130 as provided in APES 110 code of ethics for professional accountants.
(b) APES 110 professional appointment section 210 expressly provides that whenever an auditor is in a situation of accepting an appointment provided by a new client it is his duty to determine whether such appointment is going to violate any principles of ethics which auditors are subjected to. Jamie who is an auditor of a reputed firm and audits only large public organisations have been asked by a local club to act as the treasurer. Here the primary question which needs to be addressed by Jamie is that whether any conflict of interest situation arises in case he takes the appointment as an auditor. In the given situation it is clear that is Jamie accepts working as a treasurer in the local club there would not be any conflict of interest situation created with his existing job all his role as an auditor. Therefore in the provided situation Jamie is not by breaching any ethical or legal principles (Han Fan, Woodbine and Cheng 2013).
(c) Section 120 doc the APS 110 principles of objectivity expressly provides that in no circumstances the auditors can compromise with the integrity of the report in relation to a client. They must always provide a reasonable judgement irrespective of any level of pressure provided by the client towards giving a favourable audit report. The situation states that Monlec Ltd is only going to pay Pymble Accountants in situation where the audit report provided by Pymble is considered to be favourable by Monlec. With reference to the above discussed provisions under no situation may Pymble compromise with the reasonability of the report which has to be prepared in relation to Monlec. In case they indulge in any misrepresentation all manipulation in relation to the report they would violate the principles discussed in the above section.
(d) An auditor under the provisions of APS 110 codes of ethics professional accountants must not compromise with the confidentiality of any information which has been gained by him in relation to the client in the course of audit. The auditor must not disclose any information which has been gained by him in relation to a client to any third party without the permission of the client as per Section 140 of the APES 110 Principles of Confidentiality. According to the provisions of APS 110 section 140.6 even when the engagement of the with a particular client has come to an end he does not have any right of compromising with the confidentiality of information gained in relation to such clients during the course of audit. Through the virtue of this section the auditor in addition does not have any right to disclose any information to a previously existing client as well. Therefore as provided in the situation Winton Accountants who have shared information in relation to one of the clients with Chadwick Chartered Accountants have violated the provisions discussed in the above sections. This is because they had the responsibility of not disclosing confidential information which they have actually done as provided through the scenario (Athanasiou 2014).
(a) Section 100.12 of APES 110 self review threat imposes an express restriction in relation to an audit team member two words using the information which has been provided by another person who conducted the audit on behalf of the same team. In addition restriction is also imposed on auditors towards using any work with has been published by others in relation to the audit. It has been provided that Davis is sent as replacement of Leona for the purpose of auditing Jenkins Ltd by Thornleigh Accountantsas Leona is not well. According to the provisions of the above discuss section the situation may result in the breach of the provisions provided by the section. This is because Davis already has information in relation to the financial situation of Jenkins Ltd. Therefore if she is sent to audit the financial statements of Jenkins there would be a threat to self review provision. In addition she may also not be able to provide an independent judgment in relation to the audit of Jenkins Ltd.
(b) Section 200.8 of the APS 110 provides that the judgment of the auditor in relation to audit report has to be independent and not under any form of influence. In the given situation John has been appointed for the purpose of auditing the financial statements of Winmalee Ltd. He has been provided with additional documents in order to support the valuation of assets owned by Winmalee Ltd. However in relation to the above discuss section he cannot take into consideration the documents as they may interfere with is independent judgment in relation to the valuation of assets. He should not get influenced by the documents provided by Winmalee Ltd or he would be liable for the breach of the above discussed section in relation to auditors independence (DeFond and Zhang 2014).
(c) As per the provisions of section 110.12 of the APES 110 self-interest threat, the auditors must not have any self-interest of any form in relation to the client for whom they are supposed to carry out audit work. It has been stated in the situation that the chocolate company has invited auditor to social functions and shows. This may be an act of influence by the company so that the auditor may provide a favourable audit report. In addition if the auditor feels that he has any form of interest in the company is independent judgement may get compromised in relation to his audit opinion. Therefore in the given situation if the auditor accepts invitation in relation to such social functions provided by the company there would be and imminent threat to the violation of the above discuss section of the code of ethics by the auditor (Ojo 2013).
a) The auditor’s responsibility is limited to finding on any misstatement in relation to the financial reports of an organization and to ensure its compliance with existing legal and ethical obligations. Unless and until the auditor is able to locate any fraud in relation to the financial report of a company he is not entitled to pass any comment in relation to the report. It has been provided that Connor company have truly stated through their financial report that they are facing difficulties to repay the loan as they do not have any financial resources available. In this situation the company has not indulge into any fraudulent or unethical activity. Thus it is the duty of the auditor to pass an Unqualified Audit Opinion in relation to the organization (Tsipouridou and Spathis 2014).
(b) It is the duty of the organisation to comply with the legal provisions of the country in which they are operating. The legal provisions extend to the process which is used by the company in order prepare and present their financial statement. In the given situation it has been provided that instead of the FIFO method as used in Australia the organisation is using the LIFO method which is used by the parent company in America. Therefore the company is not complying with the existing legal provisions which it has to comply while operating in Australia. In the given situation the auditor is entitled to issue a Adverse opinion in relation to the organization (Kachelmeier, Schmidt and Valentine 2016).
(c) It is obligation of an organisation operating in Australia to regularly conduct valuation in relation to all their assets such as buildings, plants and machineries. However it has been expressly provided that the Victorian manufacturing company is not conducting valuation with respect to its factory located in Melbourne. This is because they are not expecting a price change. However this assumption of the director may not be true and may cause a misstatement in the financial statement. The auditor would not be therefore able to provide accurate opinion in relation to the financial statement where current fair value of the land is not provided (Rahimian, Tavakolnia and Karamlou 2014).
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