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lease. 5-21 (Objectives 5-4,5-5,5-7) Chen is the auditor for Greenleaf Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd, a privately owned company that has a June 30 fiscal year, Greenleaf arranged for a substantial bank loan that 30, audited financial statements that showed a current ratio of at least 2 to 1. On September 25, just before the audit report was to be issued, Chen received an anonymous letter on Greenleaf s stationery indicating that a 5-year lease by Greenleaf, as lessee, of a factory building accounted for in the financial statements as an operating lease was, in fact, a capital lease. The letter stated that there was a secret written agreement with the lessor modifying the lease and creating a capital Chen confronted the Managing Director (MD) of Greenleaf, who admitted that a secret agreement existed but said it was necessary to treat the lease as an operating lease to meet the current ratio requirement of the pending loan and that nobody would ever discover the secret agreement with the lessor. The MD said that if Chen did not issue his report by September 30, Greenleaf would sue Chen for substantial damages that would result from not getting the loan. Under this pressure and because the audit files contained a copy of the 5-year lease agreement that supported the operating lease treatment, Chen issued his report with an unqualified opinion on September 29. Despite the fact that the loan was received, Greenleaf went bankrupt within 2 years. The bank is suing Chen to recover its losses on the loan, and the lessor is suing Chen to recover uncollected rents. Answer the following questions, setting forth reasons for any conclusions stated: a. Is Chen liable to the bank? b. Is Chen liable to the lessor? c. Is there potential for criminal action against Chen

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