- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Tammy Whitehouse2019-04-04T20:41:00
Audit reports are about to get a lot longer, and companies would be wise to give financial statement users some advance warning to head off any knee-jerk reactions.
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