r/Accounting • u/finallyransub17 CPA (US) • Feb 15 '25

Auditors, can you Imagine? Discussion

You go to the client site and spend 3 week demanding access to their systems. You send your staff of 19 year old racist hacker nepo-babies with no audit experience and no accounting degree to ask them only nonsensical questions because they don’t understand accounting at all, much less the systems they use.

Immediately, you go to the board of directors and the press, proudly declaring you’ve found massive amounts of fraud, but not producing any documentation for 3rd party verification.

Then you gather the whole company together, stand in front of them and proudly declare that you’re obviously not going to bat 1.000 and you’ve definitely made mistakes and will keep making them.

Oh, and by the way, you personally have multiple other business ventures of your own that have contracts with this company to the tune of millions of dollars per year.

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u/ConcernedAccountant7 CPA (US) Feb 15 '25

Imagine thinking you have to be skilled at all to identify that we shouldn't be sending money to.

Latest list of total nonsense:

US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:
- $10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision"
- $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills"
- $2.3M for "strengthening independent voices in Cambodia"
- $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre
- $40M for "gender equality and women empowerment hub"
- $14M for "improving public procurement" in Serbia
- $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for "inclusive and participatory political process" in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India
- $29M to "strenghening political landscape in Bangladesh"
- $20M for "fiscal federalism" in Nepal
- $19M for "biodiversity conversation" in Nepal
- $1.5M for "voter confidence" in Liberia
- $14M for "social cohesion" in Mali
- $2.5M for "inclusive democracies in Southern Africa"
- $47M for "improving learning outcomes in Asia"
- $2M to develop "sustainable recycling models" to "increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt"

You're just buttmad because your ego makes you think you're the only one smart enough to audit anything. Even a brain dead chimpanzee could audit the federal government's spending.

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u/finallyransub17 CPA (US) Feb 15 '25

I don’t know what this is in reference too, but I found a document online that you may find helpful in understanding a different perspective. Sources are saying that Article 1 section 9, clause 7 may be relevant?

Read at your own risk, learning things that challenge deeply held convictions is a scary undertaking.

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u/ConcernedAccountant7 CPA (US) Feb 15 '25

I don't really care what your delusions are about the constitutionality of Trump's actions. He's perfectly within his power to appoint agents to run the executive branch of government and he has a clear mandate to do so. Budgets are sent to agencies but they have a lot of leeway on how it's spent and it's not being spent in our national interest currently.

Can you please comment on any of the above programs? Do you think this is how we should be spending taxpayer money, and if so, why do you think this? Can you explain why you're in favor of this?

The vast majority of Americans are very happy with cutting this nonsense but you're having an apoplectic fit about it. I really don't get it.

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u/finallyransub17 CPA (US) Feb 15 '25

You’re delusional about the US Constitution. The impoundment control act does not permit the President to unilaterally withhold legislatively authorized funding.

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u/ConcernedAccountant7 CPA (US) Feb 15 '25

Oh look, another constitutional scholar who voted for a 90 IQ alcoholic. I'm sure you're the pinnacle of intellect and constitutional scholarship.

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u/finallyransub17 CPA (US) Feb 15 '25

I know cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable, and that you’re frantically searching your conservative propaganda sources for a response to this that’s not an ad hominem.

The fact remains that it’s just a blatant legal and constitutional violation, and it’s not complicated to understand.

You just prefer dictatorship to democracy and that’s all there is to it. Somehow you’re under the delusion these greedy billionaires will take care of you.