Quote Originally Posted by Salodin View Post
I thought opportunity cost was important? Sure they didn't actually lose money from their savings, but they still did lose billions of yen that they can't use in the future.
Yes, but saying "we lost twice as much money as expected due to accounting conventions" is better than saying "we lost twice as much money as expected because we suck". The latter would have major implications for their credit rating, reputation, etc., the former is pretty much white noise.