Accounting games, what are they good for?

Accounting games, what are they good for? Absolutely nothing :) (to be sung to the old War What Is It Good For? song.)Dealbook - Bank Profits Appear Out of Thin Air - NYTimes.com: "With Goldman Sachs, the disappearing month of December didn’t quite disappear (it changed its reporting calendar, effectively erasing the impact of a $1.5 billion loss that month); JPMorgan Chase reported a dazzling