Vigilante on the move A wealth of data Correction: Big Mac index ReprintsMr Morris argues that private-equity managers have charged excessive fees and overstated returns by using misleading measures of their internal rate of return.
"CCSA condemns the predatory and dishonest practices employed by K12 Inc. to dupe parents [by] using misleading marketing schemes, siphon taxpayer dollars with inflated student attendance data, and coerce CAVA School nonprofit employees into dubious contracting arrangements," the charter association said in a statement.
Although AfriForum does not typically make explicitly racist statements, it often uses misleading or false data to characterize South Africa as a country in which white people are oppressed.
Tyco hopes that these clauses will rebut accusations, first made by an investment newsletter, that the company used misleading bookkeeping.
In roughly the same period, the telecommunications firm WorldCom Inc. used misleading accounting techniques to hide expenses and overstate profits by $11 billion.
Although numbers recorded on the balance sheet are often misleading, investors can adjust them by using information that companies are obliged to disclose elsewhere.
Seth Kaye, executive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, stared out at opponents from the lectern and called them "misguided activists using scare tactics and misleading data".
Differences in clinical practice can result in misleading data being used to evaluate factors such as cost and efficacy.
These two sources of data are far more congruent than is suggested by using current, possibly strongly misleading, dating methods.
The new regulations make it an offence to sell someone goods that they would not have bought otherwise by using advertising or sales patter that contains "misleading omissions".
