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For a variety of reasons, business attempt to manage their
reported assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, or income. You
can search the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Business Week or
other financial/business periodicals for articles on the subject.
Attached is one such article involving Dell Corp. Do not
research academic journals, as the articles typically will be too
long and complex for our purposes. Your paper should be a
minimum of three and maximum of 5 typed (double spaced, 12
point type) pages summarizing: 1) what the company did, 2)
why they did it, 3) what reported financial numbers were
affected, and 4) the dollar amount by which the reported
numbers were affected.