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"The assignment's over. I've cracked the case."

Now this causes me a little guilt and embarrassment,
as I have not thought about our assignment for days, but

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I cover for it by actin' enthusiastic instead.

"No foolin'? You found out how the stuff is bein'

liberated?"

"Well, actually it turns out to be a case of embezzle-
ment, not pilferage. One of the Deveels in Accounting
was tinkering with the receiving records and paying for
more than was coming in at the shipping dock."

"Bunny," I sez, "try to remember that my degree is
not in accounting. Could you perhaps try to enlighten
me in baby talk so's I can understand the nature of the

heist?"

"Okay. When we buy the raw materials, each shipment

is counted and a tally sent to Accounting. That tally
determines how much we pay our supplier, as well as
alerting us as to how much raw material there is in inven-
tory. Now our embezzler had a deal going with the
suppliers to bill us for more material than we actually
received. He would rig the receiving tallies to tie out to
the overage, pay the supplier for goods they never
shipped, then split the extra money with them. The trou-
ble was that since the same numbers were used for the
inventories, the records showed that there were more
goods in inventory than were actually there, so when the
plant came up short, the owner thought the employees
were stealing from him. The missing goods weren't being
pilfered, they were never in the plant at all!"

I gave a low whistle of appreciation.

"That's great. Bunny! The Boss'11 be real proud of