Fred Stern & Co Acc492 Case Study
Week Five Case Studies
Team D
ACC 492
January 15, 2007
CASE 8.1
FRED STERN & COMPANY, INC.
1. Observers of the accounting profession suggest that many courts attempt to ¡§socialize¡¨ investment losses by extending auditors¡¦ liability to third-party financial statement users. Discuss the benefits and costs of such a policy to public accounting firms, audit clients, and third-party financial statement users, such as investors and creditors. In your view, should the courts have the authority to socialize investment losses? If not, who should determine how investment losses are distributed in our society?
The word "socialize" is used to suggest a socialist society in which profits and losses are shared by and distributed to the general public by the central government through taxation, legistration, social welfare, or some other legal means. In contrast, the capitalist society is rewarded to the risk takers alone (the auditors in this case).
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