- 15 Marks
AAA – May 2016 – L3 – Q2b – Ethical Issues in Auditing
Discuss the implications of a tax authority investigation into a client after an unmodified audit opinion.
Question
(b) You are a senior manager in Nnamdi & Co, a firm of Chartered Accountants in Nigeria. Recently, you have been assigned specific responsibility for undertaking annual reviews of existing clients. The following situations have arisen in connection with three clients:
i. Nnamdi & Co was appointed auditor and tax advisor to Unicorn Co last year and has recently issued an unmodified opinion on the financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2016. To your surprise, the tax authority has just launched an investigation into the affairs of Unicorn on suspicion of under-declaring income.
(7 Marks)
ii. The chief executive of Hassan Co., an exporter of specialist equipment, has asked for advice on the accounting treatment and disclosure of payments being made for security consultancy services. The payments, which aim to ensure that consignments are not impounded in the destination country of a major customer, may be material to the financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2015. Hassan does not treat these payments as tax-deductible.
(4 Marks)
iii. Your firm has provided financial advice to the Adetunji family for many years and this has sometimes involved your firm in carrying out transactions on their behalf. The eldest son, Verni, is to take up a position as a senior government official to a foreign country next month.
(4 Marks)
Required:
Identify and comment on the ethical and other professional issues raised by each of these matters and state what action, if any, Nnamdi & Co should now take.
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