CASE STUDY 3 CONFLICTING CLIENTS’ INTERESTS You are a sole practitioner who used to provide a range of accountancy services for a small company (Company A) that owns a hardware shop in the town where you practise. Following a brief retendering process, the client chose to engage an alternative firm of accountants . Both you and the other firm had been asked to tender for a range of services, including the preparation of year end accounts, tax compliance work, and a due diligence exercise in respect of the intended purchase of a small hardware business in the neighboring town. You believe that you were unsuccessful in the tendering process on the basis of cost alone, as Company A is not very profitable , and suffers from the competition of the other hardware business that it intends to acquire. You are the continuity provider for another local sole practitioner. Two months ago, he suffered a heart attack, and so you ar...