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Consultant auditors are external personnel contracted by the firm to perform an audit following the firm's auditing standards. This differs from the external auditor, who follows their own auditing standards. The level of independence is therefore somewhere between the internal auditor and the external auditor.
This conflict voids the CPA firm's independence for multiple reasons, including: the CPA firm would be auditing its own work or the work the firm suggested, and, the CPA firm may be pressured into unduly giving a positive (unmodified) audit opinion so as not to jeopardize the consulting revenue the firm receives from the client.
Codification of Auditing Standards and Procedures full-text: November 1972 2: Reports on Audited Financial Statements full-text: October 1974 3: The Effects of EDP on the Auditor's Study and Evaluation of Internal Control full-text: December 1974 4: Quality Control Considerations for a Firm of Independent Auditors full-text: December 1974 5
The auditor must state in the auditor's report whether the financial statements are presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The auditor must identify in the auditor's report those circumstances in which such principles have not been consistently observed in the current period in relation to the preceding period.
The firm was founded in 1926 by Ira B. McGladrey (1883-1952) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.McGladrey became a prominent figure in public accounting in Iowa, serving as President of the Iowa Society of Certified Public Accountants, chairman of the Iowa Board of Accountancy, as well as a member of the Rules Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the premier governing body ...
“In Wisconsin, the government’s financial management is above average in many ways: the state’s pension is the nation’s most securely funded, while the state government ran a surplus in FY ...
No audit firm wants to have to explain to the press the loss of a big client. This gives the directors of the large company a commanding position over its audit firm and they may look to take advantage of it. The audit team would feel pressured to satisfy the needs of the directors and in doing so would lose their independence.
CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (known as CliftonLarsonAllen or CLA) is a professional services firm and the eighth-largest [3] accountancy firm in the United States. It was established in 2012 with the merger of two U.S. firms: Clifton Gunderson LLP (based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and LarsonAllen LLP (based in Minneapolis, Minnesota). [4]