Sentence examples for deceitful accounting from inspiring English sources

The problem was the government's deceitful accounting of the war, which led to what popularly became known as the credibility gap.

"We want to be able to borrow at the same rates as other euro-zone countries," Mr Papandreou said, perhaps optimistically given Greece's record of huge budget deficits and deceitful accounting.

The fact is that some greedy executives, loaded up with tens of thousands of options, engage in all manner of fraudulent and deceitful accounting tricks to jack up earnings and their share price, cash in at the right time, and then leave the company.

The two had something in common accusations of deceitful accounting had left a lingering pall over both their companies.

Once acquired, Tyco's businesses were given a brutal, one-off round of job cuts, then left to fend for themselves.Nor, despite the exhaustive efforts of short-sellers and their friends in the media, is there evidence that Tyco's accounting was particuarly deceitful.

Reactions in Israel were mostly supportive of Netanyahu's account of a deceitful Iran attempting to negotiate as cover while scientists pursue the ability to execute a quick "breakout" of nuclear arms.

This is based on a sentence from an important report annex, while he ignores the report body which describes deceitful actions by Swiss banks, inappropriate closing of accounts, failure to keep adequate records, etc.

April 1990: Report by Price Waterhouse on 1989 BCCI accounts alleges "false or deceitful" transactions.

What a sadness that Marston, who emerges in this account as a handsome, deceitful and startlingly creepy huckster, whose weirdness cost him his academic career, will never be played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The horror stories you see online of deceitful eateries are usually just sensationalized accounts used to drum up hysteria and get more page views.

The film, which opens Friday in Los Angeles, is a far tougher chronicle of Armstrong's deceitful (and often vindictive) behavior and an unusually candid account of how the team behind the movie was seduced into believing the athlete's carefully crafted but fully fraudulent story.