It's unfair to blame the whole country. It's only in the public sector where people get to f*ck up in spades with absolutely no accountability.
If only this were true! The sad fact is that there are many individuals, often accountants and managers, but not always, who move from company to company leaving a trail of corporate destruction behind them in the name of short term gains, whilst destroying the long term viability of the companies they've poisoned. The damage is rarely public knowledge at the time they move on to their next victim, so the cycle continues.