Accounting Error

  

Accountants make mistakes. The culprits? Naughty keyboards typing in numbers twice, trying to do complex arithmetic in their head, crediting when they should be debiting, and generally, putting the wrong number of beans in the wrong box on the wrong sheet.

Accounting error, for better or worse, is a sad thing, but it isn't fraud, which would be the intentional committing of an accounting error.

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