Provision for depreciation based on historic cost will show inflated profits and lead to payment of excessive dividends.

They know that retailers mark up the prices to those of domestic goods and have enjoyed inflated profits.

Having won that fight, these companies can continue to report inflated profits.

The board said the excessive compensation was based on artificially inflated profits.

Both of those charges relate directly to the company's having misled investors by reporting inflated profits as a result of accounting manipulations.

It would take a mind more Greenspanian than mine to sort out the excessively inflated profits from the legitimate.

Company executives sold stock and collected bonuses based on the inflated profits, the S.E.C. contended.

The inflated profits helped drive up the share price of CUC International, making the company more attractive to potential acquirers.

Either way, sellers would find their inflated profits eroded.

They are detectives, sifting through balance sheets as they hunt for hidden problems or inflated profits.