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Friday Footnotes: Fired Accountant Spills the Dirty Laundry; Scandals of Yore; Gen AI For Good | 1.26.24

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This comes after KPMG, which was hired by the organization in 2021 to review its compliance with agreements for three federal grants, found that documentation was lacking. Pride “encountered challenges in locating supporting documents for certain expenditures spanning the years 2017 to 2021,” Modeste said in the statement.

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World-wide, startups making AI-powered accounting software amassed $233.3 million in funding for all of 2021, according to research provider PitchBook Data Inc. Omoniyi Osunsanya, has said the district will attract youths in secondary schools, tertiary institutions, and graduates to the accounting profession. “We

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