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.

• Aclients; auditors may, for instance, allow  
• Bclients, as an instance, to allow  
• Cclients, like to allow  
• Dclients, such as to be allowing  
• Eclients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of