“…On the other hand, the accounting professional, because of his/her training in different commercial topics, and his/her experience, has relevant knowledge about all stages of the business, and, consequently, greater capacity to diagnose the existence of suspicious money laundering flows (Akinbowale et al , 2020; Gangwani, 2020). The more than 600,000 Brazilian accounting professionals and organizations only started to be obliged to report suspicious situations of money laundering, starting in 2013, which reached a small number, approximately less than 3,000 reports of suspicious operations in nine years (Conselho de Controle de Atividades Financeiras (COAF), 2023; Ramos et al , 2018).…”