Designed for both sides in disputes, Accountants’ Liability provides you with the legal knowledge and strategic advice to help you prove (or defeat) such claims as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, securities fraud, common law fraud, secondary liability, and civil RICO violations.
Accountants’ Liability, published by the venerable Practising Law Institute, enables accountants to avoid slip-ups, alerting them to the damage done if they fail to perform contracted services, fail to uncover clients’ wrongdoing, misstate material facts, control entities that violate securities laws, and fail to follow professional conduct, accounting, auditing, and tax standards. Included is essential Sarbanes-Oxley coverage of PCAOB auditing standards and disciplinary rules, broad prohibitions on nonaudit services, auditor rotation requirements, audit workpaper retention standards, and a ban on tax shelter advice from accounting firms that audit public companies. New coverage examines the growing body of international audit standards necessitated by the growth of the global economy, the two-step process involved in an appeal of an AICPA Trial Board disciplinary decision, and the difficulty of applying the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act’s safe-harbor provision for forward-looking statements.
Summary of Contents
 Services Performed;
Situations Which Give Rise to Accountants’ Liability;
Common Claims;
Standards of the Accounting Profession;
Breach of Contract;
Negligence;
Fraud;
RICO;
Breach of Fiduciary Duty;
Liability Under Other Securities Law Provisions;
Litigation Against Accounting Firms;
Disciplinary Proceedings Against Accountants;
Professional Liability Insurance
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