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Who Is Checking the Numbers at Alibaba?
Who's really doing most of the audit work on Alibaba's numbers?
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Paul Gillis, a professor at Peking University who writes the China Accounting Blog, made an excellent point over the weekend about Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. that's worth repeating. The company says it is audited by the Hong Kong affiliate of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gillis is skeptical about that claim, based on some of the information in Alibaba's disclosures.