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Quickbooks in crypto firms: Just a sign of the overall disdain for accounting and controls in start-up culture?

Quickbooks is getting publicity as the software of choice for bankrupt crypto crooks

Francine McKenna
Feb 21, 2023
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Startups, especially in the financial services sector, should keep close track of their cash. But founders are notoriously allergic to spending time and money to account for it properly.  

That’s what I wrote on February 8 for FT Alphaville about the use of Quickbooks by crypto frauds FTX and Celsius.

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