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Book Review: Contemporary Issues in Audit Management and Forensic Accounting II
In my previous post, I summarized the book‘s discussion of Fraud Theory and Deterrence, which explored why individuals commit fraud and how organizations can reduce the conditions that enable fraudulent behavior. This second post focuses on another major theme covered in Contemporary Issues in Audit Management and Forensic Accounting: Detection Tools and Models. As financial…
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Book Review: Contemporary Issues in Audit Management and Forensic Accounting I
One useful resource I recently found in my ongoing study of fraud detection and forensic accounting is Contemporary Issues in Audit Management and Forensic Accounting, published by Emerald Publishing. Rather than reviewing the entire book in one post, I plan to summarize and reflect on three themes that are especially relevant to my interests: This…
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Understanding APIs: From Concept to a Working Mini Project
When I first started learning about APIs, the term felt abstract. Everyone seemed to use the word API, but depending on the context, they could be referring to a specification, a piece of code, a running service, or an entire business strategy. To better understand the concept, I combined several learning approaches: reading, mind mapping,…
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Do You Really Want That Computer Science Degree? A Recent Graduate’s Perspective
A few days ago, I came across an article titled “Do You Really Want That Computer-Science Degree?“ The article sparked a lively discussion online, and one theme appeared repeatedly throughout the comments: there was a time when computer science was the degree to have. For many people who entered the workforce in the 1990s and…
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What Started as a Craving Ended as a Journey to The Big Easy
One joke I often hear is that there is no such thing as American food. When people are asked to name a typical American dish, the answer is often “McDonald’s” or some other form of fast food—usually only half-jokingly. In many small American towns, the local dining scene often revolves around a Chinese buffet, a…
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Will AI Really Take Everyone’s Job? Lessons from The Prediction Machine
A few days ago, YouTube recommended a book-review video by a Chinese content creator discussing The Prediction Machine (published in Chinese as AI Minimalist Economics), a book originally written in English by three economists from the University of Toronto. The video offered one of the clearest economic explanations of AI that I have encountered, particularly…
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From Information to Knowledge: Building a Personal AI Knowledge Base
Over the past few weeks, YouTube’s recommendation algorithm has repeatedly suggested courses on building AI agents. Many of these courses, particularly those created by Chinese content creators, focus on using large language models to automate research, organize information, and create personal knowledge systems. While exploring the topic, I came across a video titled “How to…
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Internal Controls Over Generative AI: Moving Beyond the Framework
Generative AI is rapidly finding its way into accounting, auditing, finance, compliance, and operational processes. As organizations begin integrating these tools into day-to-day activities, a familiar question emerges: How do we maintain effective internal controls when the system generating information can produce different answers to the same question? While reading the June 2026 issue of…
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How an MIT Student Used AI to Learn a Semester’s Worth of Material in 48 Hours
Can AI help compress a semester of learning into a weekend? Perhaps not literally—but it can dramatically accelerate the path from information overload to meaningful understanding. Recently, I came across an intriguing post describing how a graduate student used Google’s NotebookLM to absorb a new subject in roughly 48 hours. Rather than asking the AI…