creative accounting

I've noticed that with my clients who get caught doing creative accounting.

It cannot be done by "creative accounting" or the sale of assets.

To some, the government's reasoning leans toward a legal version of creative accounting.

"I'm convinced that with a little creative accounting, you can show stranded costs for just about anybody."

There is a lot of room for creative accounting."

What needs to be abolished is all the "rules" in the tax laws that allow creative accounting.

They said it did not do enough to curtail states' use of creative accounting techniques in Medicaid.

That is an invitation to engage in creative accounting.

Experts already knew that the Whitman administration had used creative accounting to justify a series of tax cuts.

Creative accounting by one company was quickly imitated by others.

The use of creative accounting techniques such as lease-back arrangements if legal.

Oscar learns that "creative accounting" of the very successful movie results in a loss, so he will not see any money.

But with creative accounting, states have used some of the windfall on tax cuts, roads and prisons.

Q. Thanks to some creative accounting and poor judgment, you have a felony conviction in your past.

We naturally agree with the Presidency's proposal that this should be done without recourse to creative accounting.

They also hid all of this through creative accounting practices that artificially inflated the company's share price.

Only creative accounting, they say, may make it appear that its deficit is less than 3 percent of its output.

Henry Kravis is one man to know his numbers - and to spot creative accounting.

Thus, creative accounting became a time-honored feature of Latin American economic reports.

"I think this is just sanctioning creative accounting."

So the extra money may come from increasingly creative accounting techniques, including drawing down a projected surplus in the budget for 2001.

Then, eager to meet his quarterly numbers and to increase his stock price, he considers creative accounting.

Other former Wall Street favorites have engaged in creative accounting to pump up their stock prices.

The company says it would not have approved Mr Sullivan's creative accounting.

In-house facilities were closed or stood idle allegedly as a result of "creative accounting" methods.