Legal point concerning accounting practices employed by a government contractor. Road-bulding metaphor allowed jurers to understand the concepts and determine what methods would have been reasonable under the circumstances.

 

Presented here are stills from an animation which was presented step-by-step, making these accounting methods clear to the jury.

 

Animated graphic available on original vendor's website: http://clearcaselegal.com/portfolio/poc-accounting-procedure-was-misused/

Defendant's job in-question involved building a brand-new networking system for the entire Navy and Marine Corps.The scale and complexity of the task was enormous. The accounting methods utilized by the contractor assumed that there would be no unforeseen difficulties, and the job would progress at an even and predictable pace, with an on-time completion and with no unexpected costs. This assumption was completely un-realistic. This mistake was an important point for the jury to understand.

 

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