Auditing is such a rabbit hole. Especially controls. Like at some point you gotta just stop

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You know what they say … audits don’t end, they just run out of time.

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For real

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tell that to the pcaob…

Don’t do it. Don’t go down the rabbit hole. It’s not a substantive test. You test the attributes. That is it.

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