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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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How AI is transforming audit [ Thomson Reuters ] In the past, auditors have heavily relied on manual processes to uncover risks in financial statements and business operations. This allows auditors to shift attention to more complex and strategic work, like interpreting results and offering experience-based insights to clients.

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Accountants Behaving Badly: Kickback Schemes, Hiding Money From the IRS, Embezzlement Spree

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Plus, Pennsylvania accountant loves tax evasion, North Carolina CPA indicted on securities fraud charge, and Kentucky accountant gets jail time for sex trafficking. The prosecution also said Simontacchi prepared false income tax returns for the years 2013 to 2019, shorting the government more than $100,000.