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"Accounting firms should be liable to pay stockholders if they give a company a clean audit and it goes bankrupt within a year".

Write a response disagreeing with the above statement

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This statement is completely false. Perhaps, at the time when the accounting form audited company X, Company X was in good health. An audit is a snapshot in time - it reflects the ...

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