Auditor Angst

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"There are things we do today that we rarely did five years ago," says Robert Kueppers, deputy CEO at Deloitte. One, he says, is to bring in forensic accountants "to try to figure out, if someone wanted to fiddle around with the books, where they would do that." The new focus on internal controls has helped, too. "If your controls are good, it's just that much harder to circumvent them," Kueppers says.