Sentence Correction

Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank’s profits on paper.
(A) clients; auditors may, for instance, allow
(B) clients, as an instance, to allow
(C) clients, like to allow
(D) clients, such as to be allowing
(E) clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of

The answer, I think, should be A.

Here's why:

[spoiler]B is incorrect as it is a run-on sentence.
C is incorrect since "such as" should be used here.
D is incorrect even though "such as" is used since it does not help form a complete sentence.
E is incorrect because the words after the semicolon do not form a complete sentence.[/spoiler]