1 (a)

When receiving incoming auditor's request for professional clearance, if the existing auditor sent out a response to the incoming auditor, without the reporting entity's permission. Which principles of ethics is violated by the existing auditor?

Integrity, Independence, Confidentiality, or Objectivity?

1(b) Identify the threats (self-review, self-interest, familiarity, intimidation) that the audit team is facing in the following scenarios:

(i) One of the directors of the client is the uncle of an audit team member.

(ii) The sister of an audit team member invests in the debentures of the audit client.

(iii) An audit team member was previously employed by the client in its accounting department.