Edited sentence: Counting orders as sales before funds are RECEIVED, on the other hand, is normal accounting.Datapoint's main sin was in counting product as SHIPPED, at the end of the month, before it actually was, in its anxiety to hit the quarterly number.Such transactions generate Accounts Receivable.The company was clearly in line, given its vision and ingenuity, to introduce the era of personal computers, had it not succumbed to Wall Street pressures to report the quarter.This was a wonderful stock for over 10 years