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Which of the Following Statements Regarding Independence with Respect to Accounting

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Which of the following statements regarding independence with respect to accounting and other services is FALSE?


A) 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.
B) 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,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 or her own work.
C) The PA cannot perform the bookkeeping for a company and also provide assurance services.
D) The PA can 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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