> > >If you've ever been responsible for a Pnl unit, much less an entire company, then you'll understand the crushing pressure you are under to make numbers. Sooner or later you'll have to decide if committing outright fraud is worth it.

> > >I'm guessing that the management had good intentions when they started out. And the fraud started small, just buy a few cases to juice the quarters numbers, and it slowly spirals out of control.

Maybe you didn't finish reading it? Possibly the decision to "juice the quarters numbers" is something you'd be comfortable telling the shareholders? You'd better downvote to be safe.

edit: dunno, apparently this is a personal attack. I'm sorry to all the people I've hurt; speculation about contextual framing is obviously inappropriate; I've obviously made up the above quoted text; it's not as if any comment's quotes were taken out of context, obviously; I am history's greatest monster