Who are the stakeholders in this situation?

What are the ethical issues?

What assumptions or principles of accounting are relevant to this case?

Do you think it was ethical to try to time the release of a story so as to diminish its effect?

What would you have done if you were the chief executive officer of Boeing?

Boeings top management maintains that it did not have an obligation to reveal its problems during the first half of the year. What implications does this have for investors and analysts who follow Boeings stock?