### Comment:
It can be both fraud and not fraud. The one key thing is that future quarters will suffer at the expense of it and potentially be open to corrections. It raises a red flag that such a huge jump happened right around the controversy, accounting individuals jumping ship, and nearly 1.5B in debt coming due in the next six months. 
  
 If I had to guess i'd imagine the new order system might be a factor and that could be a situation of accelerated revenue.

### REPLY:
I meant in context of this discussion. Can you give an example of how a company could non-fraudulently smudge GAAP numbers by 'delay paying your suppliers'? Can be hypothetical and unrelated to TSLA. I'm legitimately interested.

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