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Management Consultancy
5. To attain the highest standards of professionalism, highest level of performance and meet public
interest requirement, a CPA who provides management consultancy services should meet the
following basic requirements except
a. Credibility
b. Professionalism
c. Confidence
d. Top-of-the-line and world-class facilities
7. Should ethical conflict arise, the professional accountant who is also a management consultant
should observe the following except
a. Follow the established policies of the firm to seek resolution of such conflict
b. Review the conflict problem with the immediate superior unless it appears that the
immediate superior is the one involved in the conflict problem
c. Seek counselling and advice publicly with the applicable professional accountancy body
(e.g., PICPA) or regulatory body (e.g., BOA)
d. Resign if all possible levels of internal review and courses of action have been exhausted
and submit an information memorandum to an appropriated representative of the firm.
8. Confidentiality of information about a client’s affairs is one of the ethical principles that should
always be observed by a management consultant. The following situations allow the consultant
to disclose information otherwise considered confidential except
a. When disclosure is authorized by the client
b. To produce documents to give evidence in the course of legal proceedings
c. When disclosure is necessary to protect the professional interests of a professional
accountant in legal proceedings.
d. To respond to an inquiry of shareholders and creditors of the business entity.
9. Management consulting is a non-assurance engagement that may be performed by professional
accountants. If management consultancy service is provided to the audit client of the same
professional accountant during or after the period covered by the financial statements but
before the start of the audit engagement, consideration should be given to threats to
independence, if any, arising from the consultancy service. If the threat is significant, safeguards
are to be considered and applied as necessary to reduce the threat to an acceptable level. These
safeguards include the following except
a. Obtaining the audit client’s acknowledgement of responsibility for the results of the
consultancy service.
b. Precluding personnel who provided the consultancy services from participating in the
audit engagement
c. Engaging another firm to review the results of the consultancy services or another firm
to re-perform the non-assurance services to the extent necessary to enable it to take
responsibility for those services
d. Declining acceptance of the audit engagement
13. Professional accountant should not be associated with reports, returns, communications or
other information where they believe that the information;
a. Contains a materially false or misleading statement
b. Contains statements or information furnished recklessly
c. Omits or obscures information required to be included where such omission or
obscurity would be misleading
d. All of the above
Answers:
1. D
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. D
6. D
7. C
8. D
9. D
10. D
11. D
12. D
13. D
14. D
15. C