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days before I took a hiatus to write this book, one of my partner col-
leagues came to me to express her frustration with a particular process
initiative. It seemed that our firm’s leadership group that handled process
development had made a decision to divert all of our client’s general ledger
data from all of its disparate sources into our internal processing environ-
ment’s software.
Public accountants suffer a lot from dealing with their clients’ proprietary
software systems. It’s much harder to uniformly produce our compiled,
reviewed, and audited financial statement products if we allow all sorts of
chaos to be going on at the end of earnings periods (i.e., months, quarters,
years). This affects all sort ...