On the other hand, if nothing was done to cook the books and hide fraud, the auditors would've picked it up during their lenghty audit and reported accordingly.
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The Arthur Andersen accounting firm is deservedly in big trouble on many fronts for allegedly helping to cook the books at the failed energy giant Enron and other companies.
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I suppose I'm avoiding the question of why the show, for which Frederick Freyer wrote the music and Patrick Cook the book and lyrics, is so determinedly uninteresting and spiritless.
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The panel found no evidence that the CIA was responding to pressure from the White House to cook the books for a war that Bush was clearly determined to undertake.
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But if you cook the books in such a way that it helps your bottom line, it doesn't matter what you call it, because no one is going to believe you.
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The movie turns out to be a big hit; however Buddy has Arlo cook the books to make it look like it made no money in order to stiff Moon Monaghan.
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By the same token, business lobbyists are at best lukewarm about the Levin-Thompson approach because they are convinced that green-friendly regulators will be inclined to cook the books to justify intervention.
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Last week, I mentioned an interesting survey from CFO . com, which revealed that nearly 20 percent of the queried executives said their CEOs have pressured them to cook the books.
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Last week's item on Media Vision and the way companies cook the books drew quite a few responses, including this one, from a reader who requested I not use his name.
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John Luczycki, a Paris-based accountant who was Vivendi's chief accounting officer and controller, settled without admitting or denying the SEC's claims that he helped cook the books at the French media company.
