You are an accountant in the budgetary, projections, and special projects department of Fentick Conductor, Inc., a large manufacturing company. The president, Carlos Jones, asks you on very short notice to prepare some sales and income projections covering the next $2$ years of the company$$s much heralded new product lines. He wants these projections for a series of speeches he is making while on a $2-$week trip to eight West Coast brokerage firms. The president hopes to bolster Fentick$$s stock sales and price.

You work $23$ hours in $2$ days to compile the projections, hand$-$deliver them to the president, and are swiftly but graciously thanked as he departs. A week later, you find time to go over some of your computations and discover a miscalculation that makes projections grossly overstated. You quickly inquire about the president$$s itinerary and learn that he has made half of his speeches and has half yet to make. You are in a quandary about what to do