Sammy is in charge of accounting for the purchase of equipment at Cal Works Inc....

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Sammy is in charge of accounting for the purchase of equipment at Cal Works Inc. The company has a policy that all expenditures greater than $1,000(1% of total expenditures) have to be capitalized, less than $1,000 should be expensed. Sammy is under pressure to report high earnings. He takes a $600 and a $900 expenditure, adds them together and records a capital expenditure for $1,500. Which of the following reasons and rationalizations might be the most relevant that Sammy would use to justify his actions?
This is a one time thing that I am doing. I will never do it again.
This is not that big of a number and won't have that big of an effect to the company but will help me.
This is standard practice, everyone does it.
They owe me this, they have not been fair to me up until now.

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