Upon Returning Home After a Long Workday,a CPA Told Her

question 31

Multiple Choice

Upon returning home after a long workday,a CPA told her husband that she "had a lunch meeting earlier that day with the Controller of her new client,Abnomacious,Inc.,and that the Controller ate a really expensive seafood platter." Disclosure of this information to her husband:

• A) Likely violated the duty of confidentiality
• B) Likely did not violate the duty of confidentiality
• C) Could not have violated the duty of confidentiality because communications between spouses are protected by the marital exemption
• D) Could not have violated the duty of confidentiality because this duty applies only to individuals, not to corporations