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The organizing partners also encourage all accounting and finance professionals to share the survey link with those they know in the target audience. An analyst sued BNY Mellon and Deloitte in 2019 over a valuation tool he created that Deloitte reverse-engineered so they could use it too. Who says accounting doesn’t pay??
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