Reference no: EM133063711

Question - You are required to provide comments regarding the following two short answer questions.

1) You have recently started a graduate placement at the MPA Partnership, a large Accounting and Auditing firm with head office located in Robina, Gold Coast. Your manager has asked you to be involved with a client Altec to provide some advices regarding a takeover deal undertaken by Altec which is planning to takeover a data mining company Cloud AI. The client consults you to provide an audit report of Cloud AI's financial report and expects all instances of frauds contained in the financial reports to be identified through the Audit.

Requirement - Comment and Evaluate the client expectation in the case study.

2) MPA Partnership is tendering for the audit of Instyle Ltd for the 2021 financial year. As part of the audit team at MPA Partnership, you note that the engagement partner Phillip Andrew holds an interest in Instyle Ltd and the interest is material during your review of Instyle' business extract. Further the investigation, you have observed that Philip is the director of a solar business which is the major supplier of Instyle Ltd.

Required - 1) Identify and evaluate the threat to assurance engagement.

2) Explain any relevant or practical safeguard that could be put in place to reduce the threat.

3) If the interests were held by another general partner in the office, rather than being held directly by the engagement partner Philip, would it make any difference to your answers.