Tyco used malicious accounting methods to inflate its profits significantly. During the scandalperiod, Tyco’s home security monitoring division, ADT, was boosting in the 1990s becoming awell-known desirable brand. To increase a company’s profits, it is important to have highernumber of contracts with new customers. In a normal case, a firm can implement this throughits sales department or it could be through dealerships, which are considered an externalnetwork in that example. Tyco, though, used both methods but relied heavily on the last one.The gimmick that Tyco benefited significantly from was that it used several sales forces fromdealers as an outsourcing service; thus, not including them in the expenses legend as a payroll,but as they are selling security contracts. In return, Tyco purchased each new client contract anamount of $800. The main problem was in recording these into financial statements, Tycomanipulated accounts by considering these payments amounts as “acquisition to contracts”.Hence, shifting this from an expense to an investing outflows in the cashflow statement. Ofcourse, doing so and playing this card would overstate the cash flow from operations (CFFO).However, it appeared that Tyco enjoyed the game and exaggerated this action by going furtherinto another shenanigan.