The records showed it took an average of about 10 million years for an ecosystem to become re-established, irrespective of the severity of the extinction.

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Moreover, other data reviewed by Audit Analytics suggests that the severity of 2012 restatements, as measured by both the impact on net income and by the average number of issues per restatement, was generally less than in the period prior to 2008.

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