Accountant’s poor accounting leads to client’s financial loss
Howie Jones May 3, 2024 5:43 pm
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Don’t look to Kellwood Chief Information Officer Don Riley to obsess over building an information technology empire at the apparel company. “No sacred cows” is his mantra for deciding what technology will be kept under his company’s roof, or contracted to another company. Not everyone would agree. Some companies use
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