What would you do?

Question

Scenario #D: A government supplier has a vast amount of obsolete inventory (say outdated computers) which it cannot sell, so its financial reports indicate that the write-off costs of this inventory is passed onto the government in the price of the newer computers it is contracted with to provide.

Answer 1

Well you should just should just do what the financial reports tell you to do, because you'll get new computers for old ones which you can't even sell.