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Originally Posted by Richard C
I think that when it comes to expenditures under the cap, it is not just the total sum that you spend, but they must keep detailed accounting as to what it was spent on. So you can't have back door sweetheart deals in which goods or services are paid at below fair market value (and then compensated in some other shadow way). From a forensic accounting perspective I assume that is an obvious trick they would look for.
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no doubt it would be an easy thing to track or uncover through any number of accounting techniques but i also wouldn't considered it shadowy. maybe more barter but i take you point.
i wonder if this precludes teams from benefiting from any discounts like a price reduction for buying in bulk...but indeed, from a budget cap monitoring position, the cap hit has to be based on what the fair market value is and not necessarily the price for which a team actually paid.