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If you work in the accounting or finance profession, what do you find most disappointing about the U.S. financial reporting framework, as you understand it?

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I would have to answer that the framework and the actual financial reporting has become so complex most people cannot understand it. Within the framework there are so many opportunities to hide, change, and create havoc that it takes specialized forensics to find the problems. Somehow, the ability to create ...

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