How would you goose the numbers in real time without an army of people curating what was reporting? Accounting is a bit of shell game at these levels, is it not

How would you goose the numbers in real time without an army of people curating what was reporting? Accounting is a bit of shell game at these levels, is it not? That is, we move one loss to this column, a gain to that column and suddenly we don't look __as bad__ as we were going to just a few minutes prior. Doing that in real time is super problematic.