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"Creative accounting" is something we hate. From now on your numbers will have to be straight. No taking of options for stock you contrive To dump when insiders can tell it will dive. And loans? If you want one, then go to the bank. These sweetheart loans stink! They're disgusting! They're rank! This type of behavior we strictly forbid. Just do as we say now, and not as we did.

Calvin Trillin

August 1, 2002

“Creative accounting” is something we hate. From now on your numbers will have to be straight. No taking of options for stock you contrive To dump when insiders can tell it will dive. And loans? If you want one, then go to the bank. These sweetheart loans stink! They’re disgusting! They’re rank! This type of behavior we strictly forbid. Just do as we say now, and not as we did.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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