Waste Management Scandal (1998), is one of the top 10 accounting scandals of all times. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found the company's owner and former CEO, Dean L Buntrock, guilty, along with several other top executives, and Waste Management's auditors, Arthur Andersen. How does this fact coordinates with the reasons that force an accountant to go for unethical practices?

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