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Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.