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In public accounting, engagement teams procure information from clients and create and complete workpapers based on that information. The team who initially does this gains an inherent understanding of the information because they performed the full procedures and created the workpapers. The next year and every year after, these workpapers often simply get rolled forward by updating the dates and names on them. Over time, the team who initially completed the workpapers and gained that inherent understanding either goes to different clients or leaves the firm entirely and the new team members joining the team perform the procedures the same as previous years without actually inherently knowing why they're doing what they're doing. This inherent understanding rotting away over time due to rolling things forward year after year is called Rollforward Rot. It typically leads to long, frustrating engagements,low morale and high turnover.
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