cook the books
cook the accounts

Now, the most likely place for him to have been cooking the books is here.

Pretty sure he did a little bit of cooking the books.

It looked as though we might have been cooking the books.

"It is really like a form of cooking the books."

Turns out that cooking the books may have played a role, too.

"But it does not appear that he was involved in cooking the books."

Let's hope, though, that he will draw the line at cooking the books.

Neither side is accusing the other of cooking the books.

"You could have done a better job of cooking the books," Angelina said.

"Men from Mars did not come down and cook the books of this company," he testified.

In other words, the government has cooked the books.

Then officials cooked the books to conceal the transactions from Congress.

"But if you are going to use the test, don't cook the books."

"She went back into the database, and as they say, cooked the books," he said.

"I'd rather get grief for crime going up than to be accused of cooking the books."

And they will cook the books to pursue their own interests."

Whatever the truth, this was hardly the first time Bush officials cooked the books for political ends.

Something to do with forging orders and cooking the books.

"If you believe people cooked the books, then right now the cooks should be selling," he said.

Then he said, still looking at the cup in his hand, He'd been cooking the books in a big way.

By 1974 most of these were in financial trouble, and he had resorted to cooking the books.

And a perfect willingness to cook the books, should it prove necessary.

The result was that he spent money he did not have and cooked the books.

"Then along comes corporate scandals in which people cook the books.

There's a fine line between legitimate earnings management and "cooking the books."