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To: willcousa who wrote (166478)	6/17/2002 3:11:09 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"Since an auditor is bound by ethics and the law to keep client information confidential, shreading would seem to be a good way of dealing with documents which are not going to be retained." I believe you will find it is just the opposite. The SOLE purpose of a Certified Public Accountant is (or used to be) to "certify" to the "public" ALL its client's secret internal financial information, which is required BY LAW to be "accounted" for and not to be hidden from the public. All the workpapers show is how they got to that disclosure. Under no reasonable circumstances would an honest forthright accountant destroy his work papers UNLESS he wishes to hide, forget or bury how he arrived at the very determination he has made public.