"We don't really follow GAAP."
Five words. 45 minutes into a call. After sustained pressure from my team. The seller's CPA had spent the entire call defending their work. Deflecting. Redirecting. Explaining away every mismatch we flagged. Then the wall crumbled. What came out next is something every buyer in diligence needs to hear. Not summarized. Not paraphrased. You need to hear the actual moment a CPA cracks and 25 years of fiction unravels in one sentence. I broke it down on video. The deflection pattern, the slow unraveling, and why this is an immediate walk-away. Watch it here before your next diligence call: redacted