You can fool some of the people all of the time -- Seek and ye shall find -- Searching for shenanigans -- Recording revenue too soon or of questionable quality -- Recording bogus revenue -- Boosting income with one-time gains -- Shifting current expenses to a later or earlier period -- Failing to record or improperly reducing liabilities -- Shifting current revenue to a later period -- Shifting future expenses to the current period as a special charge -- Database searching -- Analyzing financial reports -- Acquisition accounting tricks -- Revenue recognition -- History of financial shenanigans -- Leading the battle to combat shenanigans -- As bad as it gets.
