Think of how Enron and WorldCom failed: If you were a middle manager during the period that they were cheating with illegal "creative accounting" methods, as well as plain old fraudulent reporting, and you became keenly aware of this, would you:

Select one:

a.

Let leadership know of your discovery and try to see if you could help get the company back on the straight and narrow.

b.

Keep your head down and make sure you looked no further to anything that might get you fired

c.

Seek legal advice to make a whistle-blower complaint because knowledge would be complicit and could lead to prosecution, despite the likelihood that the company would be damaged by your report

d.

Treat the fraudulent behaviours as new accounting principles - like "mark to market" which was questionable but has been adopted in some countries