Some Desai, the chief financial officer of Wareham SC Systems, Inc., was reviewing the revenue recognition practices of the company's three divisions. Wareham SC Systems was a capital equipment and testing instrument manufacturer and supplier to a variety of highly cyclical electronics-based industries, including the semiconductor industry. Desai undertook the review in anticipation of disclosing in the company's third quarter 2000 Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) the possible impact on the company's financial statements of the revenue recognition and reporting guidelines set forth in the SEC's recently issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No 101, “Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements” (SAB 101). SAB 101 had to be adopted no later than the fourth quarter of 2000.