From: "Phil Payne" 

> http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/WorldCom-Another-$3_8B9aug02.htm
>
> WorldCom Inc.'s internal auditors have uncovered an additional $3.8
billion
> in improper accounting, deepening the company's already severe financial
> crisis and doubling the amount of its known accounting errors to more than
> $7.6 billion over the past two years.

They're far from alone.  I would cite Computer Associate's use of its
deferred revenue account (but it's actually a Swiss company) and even IBM
back in the late 1980s.

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