"It will be good to have proper auditors come through," he said.
Considerable suspicion has been aroused over the role of Grant Thornton because the firm was Parmalat's principal auditor through most of the 1990's, when many of the financing schemes to mask Parmalat's financial troubles were first devised.
In 2013, the ECTA began running these tests, supervised by an independent auditor, through Enthalpy Analytical, Inc., a North Carolina lab that specializes in analyzing gases.
Gain work experience in preparation for a position as a night auditor through other types of hotel jobs.
Mr. Shulman said that "our job is going to be more analysis of data and less feet on the street," a reference to I.R.S. auditors combing through corporate books in search of violations.
The counting of 8.1m votes, according to the independent election commission, will take at least three weeks, as hundreds of auditors sift through papers cast for either Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank technocrat, or Abdullah Abdullah, a former mujahideen adviser.
"It is an absolute parallel to what the auditors went through" when they tried to expand from auditing to consulting.Indeed, the conflicts inherent in the agencies' business model have raised fears that the rating industry might be asking for regulatory trouble.
The added burden of having independent auditors scrub through tax returns and delivering meticulously drafted offering statements can easily offset the benefits of crowdsourcing a maximum of $1 million — a sum that is scarcely enough for ambitious startups.
The security breach happened when a rogue company auditor got through the company's controls and leaked the data.
