Auditing & Assurance Services (Auditing and Assurance Services)
Auditing & Assurance Services (Auditing and Assurance Services)
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ISBN: 9781259573286
Author: Timothy J Louwers, Allen Blay, David Sinason Associate Professor, Jerry R Strawser, Jay C. Thibodeau Associate Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter C12, Problem 1DQ
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Analyze and rationalize the exercise of due care and professional skepticism by the auditors of Firm FH.

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The responsibilities principle of the auditor’s state “maintaining professional skepticism and exercising professional judgment throughout the planning and performance of the audit”.

However, this was not executed with due care and there was absence of professional skepticism by the auditors of Firm FH. They had failed to inspect the assets of the Company BLMIS, confirm the investments and object to the divergence from the standard principles by the Company BLMIS.

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