An independent public accountant should report every suspected
fraud during audit because of following reasons :
- The fraud being done in the audit would lead to misguide the
stakeholders concerned with it and this would be violation of laws
against the interest of stakeholders. All the individuals investing
in the company would not able to know the right position of the
company, thus can take a wrong decision regarding making
investments.
- Any fraud could further lead to causing problems to the
concerned organization whose audit has been done as that
organization would be made responsible for committing fraud to make
changes in its audit for its own profit and have to pay penalty for
that.
- Also, the one who is doing the audit--public accountants, if
does not report of the fraud, will be held responsible for hiding
the fraud from authorities and could be punished for this act.
- Any fraud not been reported would lead to further disturbances
in preparing financial reports of the company and hence would have
affects on the financial position of the company. Thus, it must be
reported.
So, we saw that why a public accountant should must report of
any fraud being done.