Discuss the rules relating to the provision of accounting and other services by a public accountant (PA).

What will be an ideal response?


If a PA performs the bookkeeping and makes accounting decisions for a company and the management does not know enough about the financial statements to take primary responsibility for them, the PA cannot be considered independent for assurance services. It might be perceived that the PA has both prepared the financial statements or other data and given an audit report or other assurance on his own work. The PA can perform the bookkeeping and counsel the client management about the accounting
principle choices, but in the final analysis the management must be able to say, "These are our financial statements (or other data); we made the choices of accounting principles; we take primary responsibility for them."

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