Principles of Auditing & Other Assurance Services (Irwin Accounting)
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ISBN: 9780077729141
Author: Ray Whittington, Kurt Pany
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 3, Problem 8RQ
Bill Scott works as a manager in the Phoenix office of an international public accounting firm. His father has just taken a position as a purchasing agent for one of the public accounting firm’s Phoenix clients. Has Bill’s independence been impaired with respect to this audit client? Has the public accounting firm’s independence been impaired if Bill does not work on the audit?
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