Question

Listed below are sources of law and legal situations. For each of the situations, indicate the letter corresponding to the law tha applies.

SOURCES OF LAW
1. Common law
2. The Securities Act of 1933
3. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Legal Situations
A. Form S-1 includes material misstatements of the audited financial statements.
B. The client files a lawsuit against the CPAs for negligence in the performance of tax services.
C. A stockholder sustains a loss when he purchases 100 shares of stock in a public company (issuer) from another stockholder in reliance upon audited financial statements included in Form 10-K.
D. Compiled financial statements of a nonpublic company are discovered to include material misstatements.
E. A quarterly statement (10-Q) of a client is materially mis-stated.
F. A bank loses money that it loaned to an issuer in reliance upon financial statements filed with the SEC.
G. An initial purchaser of bonds of an issuer sustains a loss.
H. A CPA is criminally prosecuted for willingly allowing misstatements in a client's financial statements contained in a registration statement.
I. The initial purchaser of common stock of an issuer sustains a loss.
J. Accounting related consulting services resulted in a system that misstated income of a nonpublic company.

Answer 1

A. The Securities Act of 1933

B. Common Law.

C. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

D. Common Law.

E. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

F. Common Law

G. The Securities Act of 1933

H. The Securities Act of 1933

I. The Securities Act of 1933

J. Common Law