As per APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, Section 130, it is the obligation on the auditors to comply with the required laws and regulations of auditing. As per the given situation, a special advertisement from Berowra Accountants can be seen in the local paper providing the surety of tax refund foe their audit clients. It needs to be mentioned that tax refund is only possible when the companies pay extra amount of tax than their tax liabilities and it has no connection with auditing. It is the responsibility of the auditor to ensure that the financial statements of the companies are free from material misstatements; in case it is not, then to provide audit opinion accordingly. Thus, from the above discussion, it can be observed that Berowra Accountants has given the advertisement by braking the principles of auditing and thus, this action of them has violated the principle of Professional Competence as per APES 110 (Nerandzic, Perovicy and Zivkov 2012).
As per APES 110 Professional Appointment, Section 210, the obligation is on the auditors to effectively determine the effect of their new professional contract on the fundamental principles of audit profession (William Jr, Glover and Prawitt 2016). It implies that the auditors need to determine whether there is any negative effect of their appointment has on the audit profession or not. Athletic clubs are considered as not-for-profit societies. In the provided situation, it can be observed that Jamie Harvey, the auditor of a chartered accountant firm is being asked to hold the position of the treasurer of the local athletic club. In addition, Jamie Harvey does the audit of large public organizations. Thus, it can be seen that the post if treasurer in the local club does not have any connection with the audit of large public companies. In addition, there is not any threat involved in holding an position in any not-for-profit societies. Thus, based on the above discussion, it can be said that the action of Jamie Harvey has not violated any audit ethical principle as per APES 110 (Leung et al. 2014).
APES 110 Principle of Objectivity, Section 120 puts the obligation on the auditors not to compromise the audit judgment or audit opinion by coming under any kind of influence, conflict of interest, biasness and others. It is the responsibility of the auditors to deliver the correct and fair audit opinion as auditors are the representatives of investors and creditors. In the given situation, it can be observed that the final payment of Pymble Accountants is depending on the delivery of appreciate audit opinion. In this context, it needs to be mentioned that the ‘appropriate’ audit opinion refers to the favorable audit opinion to the audit client. Thus, in this case, there can be two situations. In the first situation, there will not be any violation of audit principle in case the auditors provide correct audit opinion irrespective of the payment. This is the desired situation. In the second situation, there will be the violation of auditing principle, in case the auditor provides Monlec Limited with favorable audit opinion. Thus, this action will violate the Objectivity principle of audit as per APES 110.
According to APES 110 Principles of Confidentiality, Section 140, APES 110 puts the obligation on the auditors that it is their responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of audit information obtained at the time of providing professional services to the clients (Zadek 2013). However, the opposite of this rule can be seen in the provided case. The give situation states that Chadwick Accountants have received all the accounting papers from Winton Accounts. It needs to be mentioned that these accounting papers include the confidential financial information of the audit clients of Winton Accountants. As per the provided situation, it is the job of Chadwick Accountants to analyze the audit quality of Winton Accountants. As a part of their jobs, it is required for Chadwick Accountants to conduct various analytical procedures for obtaining audit evidences. However, it can be observed that by obtaining the audit papers, the company has gained access of the accounting information of Motoring Services Company. Thus, from the above discussion, it can be observed that this action of Winton Accountants has violated the Confidentiality principle of ethics as per APES 110.
According to APES 110, Self-review Threat, Section 100.12, the auditors are not allowed to use or take reference from any previous audit judgment made by any of the audit members of the same audit team, or otherwise, it will create the self-interest threat of audit independence. After analyzing the given situation, it can be observed that Jane Davis has acquired the confidential financial information of Jenkins Ltd due to work in the place of the senior audit manager of the company, Leona Ng. Now, the accounting firm in which Jane Davis works, Thronleign Accountants wants to take advantage of the knowledge of Jane Davis by including her in the audit team for Jenkins Ltd. in this case, it can be clearly observed that the actions of Thronleign Accountants to include Jane Davis in the audit firm is against the principle of audit indolence of APES 110. Thus, based on the above discussion, it can be concluded that the actions of the accounting firm poses the Self-review Threat of audit independence (Tepalagul and Lin 2015.).
As per APES 110, Intimidation Threat, Section 100.12, there will be a threat to auditors’ independence, in case the auditors are deterred from acting objectively due to the actual or perceived pressure from the clients that includes the attempt to create influence on the auditors for getting favorable audit outcome (Carson, Redmayne and Liao 2014). In the given situation, it can be observed that the audit manager, John Darrow has received the audit papers from the audit client, Winmalee Limited. The papers are related with the accounting works of the audit client and they have produced these papyri so that the auditors consider them while drawing the audit opinion. In this aspect, it needs to be mentioned that the auditors are required to conduct various analytical procedures for obtaining the audit evidences. By providing the accounting papers to the auditors, Winmalee Limited is indirectly creating influence on the auditors and is deterring them from providing an unbiased audit opinion. Thus, this particular situation is posing the Intimidation Threat of audit independence as per APES 110.
According to APES 110, Self-interest Threat, Section 100.12, it is the obligation on the auditors not to have any kind of financial or non-financial interests on the property of the audit clients, or otherwise, it will create the self-interest threat of audit independence. In the given case, it can be observed that the auditors have received invitation from the chocolate company to visit their plant and social club before audit operation for non-auditing purpose. Thus, in this situation, the intention of the company may be to influence the audit opinion by providing aspects for amusements to the auditors. Hence, in this case, there can be two situations. In the first situation, the auditors will not create any threat of audit independence in case they simply reject the invitation of the company to visit the plant and social club. In the second situation, in case the auditors accept the invitation and visit the plant and social club, they will pose Self-interest Threat for audit independence as per APES 110 (Bryce, Ali and Mather 2015).
The auditors provide unqualified audit opinion when the financial statements of the companies have developed and presented as per the required accounting standard and there is not any material misstatements in the financial statements. From the given situation, it can be observed that the Connor Company is facing extreme difficulty in making the repayment of their loans due to the weak debt position of them. At the same time, the bank increases the difficulty of the company by demanding the speedy repayment of the loans. In this case, it is noteworthy to be mentioned that in spite of the financial difficulties, the auditors have not found any material misstatements in the financial statements of the companies. It implies that the company has developed and prepared their financial statements as per the required accounting standard and the company has not done anything to manipulate their financial difficulties. Thus, for all these reasons, the auditors will issue Unqualified Audit Opinion (Krishnan and Wang 2014).
The auditors issue qualified audit opinion when the some part of the financial reports of the companies have not been developed as per the required accounting standards, but there is not any material misstatements in the other parts of the financial statements. It is the legal obligation on the companies to comply with the accounting regulations of the operating countries. In this case, it can be observed that the company has adopted the LIFO method instead of FIFO. This action of the company has breached the accounting principle of the country; in addition, the difference between FIFO and LIFO has created material effect on the inventory of the company. Apart from these places, the auditors have not encountered any material misstatements in the financial reports of the company. For this report, the auditors will issue Qualified Audit Opinion by stating the reason for not being unqualified (Ittonen 2012).
It is the accounting obligation on the business organizations to review the value of their business plants and factories on a regular interval so that the gap between the carrying value and fair market value can be minimized. For Victorian Manufacturing Company, the directors of the company are living by the assumption that the market price land and building has been stable over the five years and for this reason, they have not done the valuation of their Melbourne factory for five years. For this reason, the company has been charging the same amount of depreciation over the years. There will be major material effect on the financial statements of the company in case the assumption of the directors is wrong. In that case, the amount of deprecation can be increased or decreased. Moreover, in the absence of correct fair value of the factory, the auditors will not be able to carry on the audit operations. For all these reason, the auditors will provide Disclaimer of Opinion (Monroe and Hossain 2013).
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