You are the director at Dello Inc., which has been appointed as auditors of Diestel ( Pty
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You are the director at Dello Inc., which has been appointed as auditors of Diestel Pty Ltd
Diestel a cold beverage wholesale supplier servicing the Gauteng area. You were as a
designated auditor.
Diestel buys its products directly from various beverage manufacturers, and then resells them
to independent shops and retail chains. Diestel currently owns a fleet of delivery vehicles,
with which it makes its deliveries to its customers.
During your review of the audit file, you could find no substantive documentation for an amount
of R claimed as a deduction when the second provisional tax return was completed
by the financial manager and signed off by the financial director, Mrs Botha. Further
investigations revealed that this amount was the total of all traffic fines issued during the
financial year to the companys delivery vehicle drivers.
Subsequently, you set up a meeting with Mrs Botha and were stunned by her response: she
believed traffic fines received by delivery vehicle drivers for speeding, illegal parking and so
on could be claimed as a deduction from taxable income. She reasoned that the fines had
been issued in the production of income. She argued that the faster the deliveries were made,
the more profitable the company would be Mrs Botha insisted that these deductions be made,
as the South African Revenue Service would not pick them up
Required
Discuss whether Mrs Bothas treatment of the traffic fines constitutes a reportable
irregularity in terms of the Auditing profession Act of marks
Discuss the actions that should be taken by the auditor in terms of the Auditing
Profession Act of if you have concluded that Mrs Bothas treatment of the
traffic fines constituted a reportable irregularity. marks
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