UK Post Office Software Glitch
I read the article below and a couple of things didn't add up for me.
One is why sub-postmasters would reach into their own pockets to cover what was obviously a computer mistake in the accounts?
The other, is there no requirement that the UK Post Office undergo an independent audit each year? Assuming there is, I would expect the audit would have revealed the accounting software error in the first year it went live.
Prison. Bankruptcy. Suicide. How a software glitch and a centuri
The article below is asking the same thing I was wondering about, why wasn't this caught during the company's annual audit?
In a prior life I worked for one of the then Big 6 public accounting firms as an auditor. Because of my background in computers I ended up in data analytics and computer forensics. Our audits looked for errors in software systems, and we looked even harder if it was a new system, or a system that had undergone a major upgrade during the year.
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