"earnings" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They would be far less tempted to manipulate earnings.
- This discretion, however, increases the possibility for firms to make both honest mistakes, such as the accidental use of a wrong useful life, or to manipulate earnings.
- Some executives sought to manipulate quarterly earnings to cash out their options at a favorable price, with little regard for the long-term welfare of their company.
- But the primary mechanism to manipulate earnings, the complaint says, were through accounting changes known as "top-level adjustments."
- But in practice, law enforcement officials and regulators say, users have deployed these same products to manipulate corporate earnings or mask underlying financial woes.
- That, he said, would reduce the possible gain from manipulating earnings in any one year.
- Regulators have indeed been interested in such insurance products and whether they are being used to manipulate earnings.
- But they are generally examining whether corporations alter projections for health care costs, pension plan returns and other factors as a way of manipulating earnings.
- "At the very least, options tended to promote a short-term focus," she said, "and at worst, they promoted fraudulent activity to manipulate earnings."
- That created the potential for manipulating earnings.
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