Of course that would not help a company while it is happening, we only check a very small fraction of all offerings. In a perfect world an accountant would catch this.
One case I ran into was very much like this one: a whole bunch of hardware was sold at above sticker price, on top of that much more hardware was sold than what the business could reasonably expect to be using. The a-technical management never caught on to this until we showed up, the fall out from that case was fairly spectacular.
