Companies may manipulate the "top line" of their accounts their revenues say, by booking sales they are not yet sure of (to boost their reported profits) or not booking sales that they are certain of (to postpone profits, and the taxes on them).In Britain the controversy surfaced again after HP's takeover of Autonomy in 2011.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that the nation's statutory debt limit will be reached on December 31 and the Treasury Department will take "certain extraordinary measures" to postpone the date.
We cannot permit ourselves to postpone "certain agendas" for the future.
Rather than let everything expire and kick in, she said, Congress could find a way to postpone certain important decisions.
"It's almost certain that we will have to postpone," said Assemblyman Keith L. Wright, chairman of the Election Committee in his house.
Adviser Timothy Coleman of Blackstone wrote in the filing that this caused Relativity to "largely have to stop paying many vendor bills, to postpone production of certain film projects, and to postpone the release of certain completed films".
In the end, it is almost certain to lose its dominant position, but it means to postpone that day for as long as possible.
When you are less certain about what is going to happen tomorrow, you tend to postpone big irreversible decisions – like buying a new car or building a factory.
When I got home, I checked out our reviews (if I'm certain I'm going to see a movie, I prefer to postpone review-reading til afterward), and I agree with everything Denby and Brody have to say.
Susan G. Komen Greater New York City recently decided to postpone its annual fundraising gala because executives "were not certain about our ability to fundraise in the near term," spokesperson Vern Calhoun said in a statement.
The president said he had asked Congressional leaders to postpone a vote authorizing military action — a vote he was almost certain to lose — even while making the moral case for punishing Syria for its deadly use of chemical weapons.
