Sentence examples for error in accounting from inspiring English sources

I think it's an error in accounting terminology.

Instead he's just a mistake, like an error in accounting, upsetting the balance, and people would rather erase him than do the math again, reconfigure the equations to make him work out.

Many debts result from benefits overpayments — because of an error in accounting or reporting, the agency pays a veteran too much.

ConAgra said on March 24 that it found errors in accounting for tax expenses that would reduce net income by a total of $150 million to $200 million in fiscal 2003 and 2004.

Atlas, based in Purchase, N.Y., has said the results were restated because of errors in accounting for inventory, bad debts and maintenance.

The world's third-biggest supermarket retailer restated its earnings in light of the errors in accounting for income from suppliers, drastically marking down its six-month pre-tax profit to August 23rd.

Wuttke and Seifried (2012) found that formalisation and mathematisation are among the most frequent student errors in accounting.

In addition, total cost of treatment, personal radiation risks during storage and handling, and errors in accounting for seeds can be reduced.

Earlier this month, the company said it would revise financial statements since 1998 because of "errors and irregularities" in accounting.

Lernout & Hauspie, once a highflier among European technology companies, said last month that it would revise its financial statements since 1998 because of "errors and irregularities" in accounting.

Diversification is particularly important when assessing the welfare consequences of random errors in accounting measurement (imperfect accruals) and, to the extent it is independent across firms, of deliberate manipulation (earnings management).