For each of the following situations involving relations between auditors and the companies they audit, indicate whether it violates IFAC's Code of Ethics for professional accountants and the rationale for the application guideline. Asante, CPA, discloses confidential information in a peer review of the firms quality control procedures.   Frank Smith,

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For each of the following situations involving relations between auditors and the companies they audit, indicate whether it violates IFAC's Code of Ethics for professional accountants and the rationale for the application guideline. Asante, CPA, discloses confidential information in a peer review of the firms quality control procedures.  

Frank Smith, CPA, is auditing a company in Ghana, which has offered to send him and his wife on a holiday in Hawaii for two weeks. 

Tabula Gonzales, CPA, says in an interview in the local paper that Emilio Rios, CPA, misleads his clients about the quality of his audit work. 

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