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audit process
Deficiency in the audit Why it was a deficiency?
The new division should have been audited more It came to Merkle through merger and was likely
thoroughly. to have different operating characteristics and
internal controls.
The determination that the errors in the sample The errors should have been projected from the
were immaterial was improper. sample to the population, and the projected error
should have been compared to tolerable
misstatement, after considering risk.