That is the whole of it.

When something does not add up — when the numbers on one page contradict the numbers on another, when a story and a ledger disagree, when a figure is present that should not be or absent that should — an auditor does not look away, does not accept the comfortable explanation, does not decide it is not her business.

She documents the discrepancy.

She traces the truth behind it, wherever it leads and however powerful the people it implicates.