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There is another aspect to this kind of activity.

Sometimes there can be an advantage in leading or lagging some aspects of internal accounting data for a time period. Basically sitting on credits or debits to some accounts for a period of weeks. The tacit knowledge to know when to sit on a transaction and when to action it is generally not written down in formal terms.

I'm not sure how these shenanigans will translate into an ai driven system.



> Sometimes there can be an advantage in leading or lagging some aspects of internal accounting data for a time period.

This worked famously well for Enron.


That’s the kind of thing that can get a company into a lot of trouble with its auditors and shareholders. Not that I am offering accounting advice of course. And yeah, one can not “blame” and ai system or try to ai-wash any dodgy practices.




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