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Exactly — the auditor is appointed to represent the interests of the shareholders, not the executives. At least, that’s the way it is supposed to work.



If some fraud is uncovered, the shareholders will lose a bunch of money. So how does that align incentives?


Presumably, any undiscovered fraud against the company is more expensive to shareholders than the discovered fraud.




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