The phrase "adverse opinion" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of financial statements or audits to indicate a negative assessment of the financial condition or compliance of an entity.
Example: "The auditor issued an adverse opinion on the company's financial statements due to significant discrepancies."
Alternatives: "negative opinion" or "unfavorable opinion".
That was a condition of the loans, in order that an adverse opinion should not affect a fiddle's market value.
What is more, Investec argues that any adverse opinion from Ofcom or the Competition Commission will face an appeal or be litigated "into the ground".
He issued the equivalent of an "adverse opinion" regarding the trustees' health care cost assumptions, cautioning readers about the current report's projections.
A week is a long time in politics, but not even an extra four of them will give the Conservative leader long enough to climb the Himalaya of adverse opinion polls and topple Labour in a general election.
HealthSouth, which is based in Birmingham, said a report from its accounting firm will contain an "adverse opinion" of the company's financial controls, which were revamped after a $2.7 billion accounting fraud that nearly drove the company to bankruptcy after it was revealed in 2003.
In an extremely rare move, the National Audit Office, the public spending watchdog, has issued an "adverse opinion" on the department's financial statements, indicating that it does not trust the accuracy of the DfE's figures and is unable to assess whether it is providing value for money.
Eliot's detractors are invariably depicted as chauvinists and gossips whose adverse opinions are obviously not worth merit.
The "collision of adverse opinions," he contended, is a necessary part of any society's search for the truth.
Auditing firms involved in SEC Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases, for example, tend to lose market share relative to their competitors (Wilson and Grimlund 1990) and those receiving clean reports from the peer-review inspectors tend to gain more clients than do firms receiving modified or adverse opinions (Hilary and Lennox 2005).
"Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
Science and technology continue to suffer the adverse judgment of the public opinion as a consequence, among other causes, of communication policies designed to hide responsibilities of high management, executives, and governments.
