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Assess Quality of Earnings and Risk of Financial Statement Manipulations – Use Current and Expanded Auditing Tools

Finance and investment professionals have long spoken of “quality of earnings”, a phrase generally defined in terms of accounting conservatism and the replicability of reported earnings – that is, that current reported profit has not been driven by non-recurring one­-time events or accounting gimmicks. However, in actual practice, obtaining valid information by which to assess quality of earnings has not been easy.
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