Analysts at RBC Capital Markets said: Revenue and costs were below our forecasts due to accounting adjustments related to the expansion; adjusting for these brought revenues, costs and EBITDA in line with RBC.
These adjustments relate to asset write offs and historic provisions.
Mr. Campbell said TJX offered $113 million for Bob's Stores, though adjustments related to inventory reductions and other issues would decrease the final amount to "less than $100 million".
The Schering-Plough Corporation said Tuesday that it lost $3.36 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007 because of accounting adjustments related to the purchase of Organon BioSciences.
The company reported a jump in net income, but after some accounting adjustments related to asset sales in Japan and elsewhere, the company profits fell 22 percent from last year's second quarter, to $8.4 billion.
The lower earnings, the report said, were a result of continued write-downs and value adjustments related to soured assets, the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September, a weak performance from corporate and investment banking and asset management operations and a rise in corporate failures.
Over all, the company reported that its profit in the first quarter increased by 12.5 percent over the same period last year, driven by sales of drugs like Zytiga for prostate cancer and by currency adjustments related to the planned acquisition of the device maker Synthes, among other factors.
MBIA said it will have $737 million in losses for the fourth quarter and mark-to-market adjustments related to mortgage securities.
In the filing, UnitedHealth reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) informed the company of "favorable adjustments related to its 2006 Medicare business," totaling $31 million.
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