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John Kirsch
Jan 28, 2016
KCG was engaged to perform an audit of the Organization. The Organization had never been audited before despite a long existence. When we asked to see the Organization’s accounting records, we were provided with numerous excel spreadsheets. We determined that even though the Organization had grown steadily and evolved over the past 40 years, their accounting records and internal procedures had not.
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