Autonomy Accounting

Remember visiting HP Autonomy in the UK in the 90s.  Was impressed what they showed us. Analytics being used with AI and Bayesian methods.  First time I had seen these approaches being used with real corporate data. Proposed it for use, but it never happened, in part due to the financial flap.  Now was this due to mere accounting differences and not fraud?  And all much ado about nothing?  Too bad if so, I liked what I saw then.