RST (auditors) found suspicion on the trustworthiness of in the financial statements of JKL Services, an aviation company, as unreliable and unfavourable. During the audit process, the auditors raised concerns about the

CS Professional · Secretarial Audit, Compliance Management and Due Diligence · PYQS · June 2024
RST (auditors) found suspicion on the trustworthiness of in the financial statements of JKL Services, an aviation company, as unreliable and unfavourable. During the audit process, the auditors raised concerns about the reliability and accuracy of JKL's financial statements. They discovered irregularities, including complex off-balance-sheet partnerships and accounting manipulations designed to inflate profits and conceal debt. JKL Services filed for bankruptcy in 2022 after it was revealed that the company had engaged in extensive accounting fraud to conceal its financial information. Define the term suspicion and list out eight transactions which may be considered as the surspicious transactions where the detailed audit is needed to be performed.

Answer & Explanation:

Suspicion is the positive tendency to doubt the trustworthiness of appearances and therefore to believe that one has detected possibilities of something unreliable, unfavorable. The following transactions relating to company formation and management may be considered as the suspicious transactions, where the detailed audit is needed to be performed are: subsidiaries which have no apparent purpose; companies which continuously make substantial losses; complex group structures without cause; uneconomic group structures for tax purposes; frequent changes in shareholders and directors; unexplained transfers of significant sums through several bank accounts; use of bank accounts in several currencies without reason; purchase of companies which have no obvious commercial purpose; sales invoice totals exceeding known value of goods; makes unusually large cash payments in relation to business activities which would normally be paid by cheques, banker's drafts etc.; and transferring large sums of money to or from overseas locations with instructions for payment in cash.

Topics: Fraud Detection

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