<h1><span class="entry-title">Hewlett-Packard says it’s the victim of fictitious accounting at company it acquired</span><br></h1><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/hewlett-packard-says-its-the-victim-of-fictitious-accounting-at-company-it-acquired/2012/11/20/1c5d71ce-3311-11e2-92f0-496af208bf23_story.html?wpisrc=nl_tech">http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/hewlett-packard-says-its-the-victim-of-fictitious-accounting-at-company-it-acquired/2012/11/20/1c5d71ce-</a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/hewlett-packard-says-its-the-victim-of-fictitious-accounting-at-company-it-acquired/2012/11/20/1c5d71ce-3311-11e2-92f0-496af208bf23_story.html?wpisrc=nl_tech">311-11e2-92f0-496af208bf23_story.html?wpisrc=nl_tech</a><br clear="all">
<br>'NEW YORK — Hewlett-Packard Co. said that a British company it bought 
for $9.7 billion last year lied about its finances, resulting in a 
massive write-down of the value of the business.
                                                <p>CEO Meg Whitman avoided calling it a fraud, but said Tuesday 
that there were “serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures 
and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy Corporation PLC.”'</p><p><br></p><p>So Whitman, a CEO once at EBay, and who ran for governor of California is just on her way to discovering that accountants/CPAs occupy the same ethical abyss as politicians, race track touts, used car/siding salespersons, carnival concessionaires, and religious professionals?<br>
</p>And these are the people who would have us believe that if we lower their taxes, they'll turn the economy around?<br><br><br>-- <br>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<br><a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a><br>
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