Friday, April 10, 2009

Hopping Down the Audit Trail


I knew that nose could find a fresh pot roast 200 yards away. However, I did not know it could also find the smallest of accounting errors 1000 miles away. Luckily for the nice folks at the San Manuel Casino, it only needed 18 hours.

As a class III gaming facility, San Manuel falls under US State and Federal oversight. To avoid nasty legal action, every discrepancy no matter how small or obscure is rectified.

Well, it took Max and his auditing team just a few hours to find it: one of the employees misspelled a common English name on an IRS reporting form. If representative Betty Brown (R - Texas) had simply given them a more understandable Native American name like she has asked of Asians, perhaps Uwodige'i, this whole mess could have been avoided.

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