Sentence examples for accounting for bad from inspiring English sources

There's no accounting for (bad) taste.

Earlier this week SunTrust fired three executives over accounting for bad loans.

They have a return on assets of just 0.3% (HSBC's return on assets is 1.6%).The real picture is undoubtedly much bleaker, for China has a lax system of accounting for bad loans, and unpaid interest on non-performing loans is usually booked as profit.

The financial crisis highlighted a lack of effective means to hold individuals to account for bad decisions, the government said.

The S.E.C. is investigating whether the company's Mexican unit improperly accounted for bad debts, Xerox said.

This concept, known as impairment, can require a corporation to account for bad loans as charges against earnings.

How companies account for bad debts on their books is irrelevant to the legal status of their claims.

It also assumes annual growth of about 20%, which does not account for bad seasons, such as the deaths caused by this year's late snow.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (AP) — Freddie Mac, the nation's No. 2 buyer and backer of home mortgages, set aside more than $300 million in the second quarter to account for bad loans, contributing to a 45percentt drop in profit.

These results suggested that elevated levels of trace elements and intense activity of sulfate-reducing bacteria may account for bad water quality at these sampling sites [28, 29].

Ev Williams says, of the growth of social media: "We laid down fundamental architectures that had assumptions that didn't account for bad behavior".