• The_one_and_only@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I am a financial accountant in a fairly large company. When external auditors look at the figures, they add up everything that they find. It doesn’t matter if the error is increasing or decreasing the profit-figure, they calculate the total of the errors.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, okay, that makes sense I guess. Seems weird from a lay point of view, but if that’s the industry standard.

        Thanks for explaining.