Reasons for the Requirement to Disclose Related-Party Transactions Include

question 25

Multiple Choice

Reasons for the requirement to disclose related-party transactions include:

• A) These transactions will always be eliminated in a consolidation so otherwise there would be no record of them in a set of consolidated accounts.
• B) A history of corporate scandals involving related-party transactions in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada.
• C) The risk that the auditor may be a related party and this must be disclosed.
• D) A history of corporate scandals involving related-party transactions in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada; and the risk that the auditor may be a related party and this must be disclosed.
• E) None of the given answers.

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