A company's quarterly operating budget was accidentally approved by an employee's cat after the animal walked across a laptop keyboard during a remote meeting.

The document passed through three additional levels of review without objection.

Finance eventually discovered the problem while investigating an unusually large expenditure category labelled simply "jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj."

Management initially blamed a formatting error before audit logs revealed that the approval had been submitted at precisely the moment the employee's cat appeared on camera.

Executives have ordered a complete review of the approval process.

The cat has retained its system privileges pending investigation.