"Auditors are our major line of defense against crooks who want to cook the books, " said EU Internal Market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein.
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And she wants to know that workers near the bottom of the corporate ladder won't lose their jobs if executives cook the books.
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Dunlap, who made his reputation by slashing jobs, denied federal allegations that he helped cook the books to make the company look healthier.
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In her fourth-floor office, a few long blocks from the Capitol, O'Neill tries to ignore Democratic suggestions that she cooks the books for Republicans.
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In auditing financial statements, it is a common practice to check for this error to detect possible attempts to " cook the books ."
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It is based on the Cook the Books bookstore that focuses on NZ chefs who have released their own cookbooks and to cook from them.
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But many Republicans suspect sampling is a Democratic device to cook the books and increase the count of minorities, particularly black Americans who overwhelmingly vote Democratic.
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Treating options like other forms of pay would make executive compensation transparent, diminish the temptation to cook the books and make managers less inclined toward excessive risk-taking.
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The new leadership has even curbed the most elementary of political instincts : the urge to cook the books to make things look better than they are.
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It is about how to cook the books so that voters likely to be Republican are overcounted and those likely to be Democrats undercounted _ or vice versa.
