A former Barnes & Noble Education Inc. employee “knowingly circumvented” the company’s internal accounting guardrails to make journal entries that improperly reduced the cost of sales in the 2024 and 2025 fiscal years, the company said Tuesday.
Barnes & Noble Education completed its internal investigation and terminated the payment processing worker, according to the company’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The investigation started by the board of directors’ audit committee found no evidence that the former employee “derived any pecuniary gains, directly or indirectly,” the filing said.
Barnes & Noble Education didn’t immediately respond to a request ...
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