BACKGROUND FACTS: Bonnie B. Buyer, age 33, single, was a proud alumna of Western New England University.
Question:
BACKGROUND FACTS: Bonnie B. Buyer, age 33, single, was a proud alumna of Western New England University. Buyer has been one of your firm’s clients for about five years. Buyer was the sole owner of a small CPA firm near Springfield, MA, which she opened a couple of years after graduation. A friendly older CPA, Sally S. Seller, told Bonnie that she was considering retiring and selling her accounting practice for $750,000. Seller’s tax practice was highly profitable, which put Sally in the top tax bracket. Turns out, Sally had been your client for nearly two decades.
QUESTIONS: Below are two buy-sell proposals. Which proposal, A or B, would Buyer prefer? Which proposal would Seller prefer? Fully explain why for each person. Notwithstanding these two alternatives, explain what, in the real world, determines how to properly allocate the purchase price.
Auditing a risk based approach to conducting a quality audit
ISBN: 978-1133939153
9th edition
Authors: Karla Johnstone, Audrey Gramling, Larry Rittenberg