>this ........ has quickly shown itself to be the "norm" in corporate accounting.

Yes, everyone's doing it, and if you know all the right people , you can do it too.
These men KNOW they're cheating.

>Maybe it should just be ignored...

Sure, let's just let these corporate raiders continue to milk the public by stealing the companies and shareholders' money by any and all the legal loopholes they can find.
After all, look who leads the pack, ENRON and the White House.
Bush and Cheney, and their appointees within the SEC, and anyone else they can find.
They are like a nest of vipers, all of them, and they KNOW what they're doing is illegal.

Unlike blowjobs under a table, their form of entertainment has nothing to do with sex, but their #1 pleasure........money.
Some people work hard for their money.
Others prefer just to steal it, then plead the Fifth.

Don Henley once said "A man with a briefcase could steal more money than a man with a gun".