5 (a) IFAC’s ‘Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants’ is divided into three parts:Par

Question

5 (a) IFAC’s ‘Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants’ is divided into three parts:

Part A – Applicable to All Professional Accountants

Part B – Applicable to Professional Accountants in Public Practice

Part C – Applicable to Employed Professional Accountants

Required:

Distinguish between ‘Professional Accountants’, ‘Professional Accountants in Public Practice’ and ‘Employed

Professional Accountants’. (3 marks)

Answer 1

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(a) Professional Accountants
■ Professional Accountants are members of an IFAC member body. They may be:
– in public practice or employed professionals;
– a sole practitioner, partnership or corporate body.
■ Professional Accountants in Public Practice (‘practitioners’) are:
– each partner (or person occupying a position similar to that of a partner); and
– each employee in a practice providing professional services to a client irrespective of their functional classification
(e.g. audit, tax or consulting); and
– professional accountants in a practice having managerial responsibilities.
This term is also used to refer to a firm of professional accountants in public practice.
■ Employed Professional Accountants are professional accountants employed in industry, commerce, the public sector or
education.