"Auditors are reminded," the board said, "that audit evidence consists of both information that supports and corroborates management's assertions and information that contradicts such assertions, including assertions regarding fair values, estimates and related disclosures".
It wasn't just his assertion that he had learned "much about the very best in human nature and a fair amount too about its frailties", including, he was careful to add, his own.
Rather, it contends that Brazil is price gouging by selling its product below "fair market value," an assertion that shrimp farmers here dismiss as not reflecting market realities.
But there's a fair bit about my assertion that an individual state can attract jobs from other states via low wages, but this won't work if every state tries to do it.
Suh's assertion is fair, but there are certainly other benefits to taking a company public, including the marketing and public to new investors.
Some of his assertions are fair.
Because what that statement suggests is that Robinson's assertion in Vanity Fair is correct: when Benioff and Weiss read this particularly grim part of A Dance With Dragons, they thought not of the girl who suffers as Ramsay's bride but of Theon and his potential redemption.
A bold assertion, to be fair, and not completely untrue given that sophistication requires an education that a laptop could provide.
As Hitchens's fact checker at Vanity Fair, I often test his assertions by contradicting them.
The spinmeisters of the art market, including fair promoters, are forever making assertions about their commercial conquests that have to be taken on blind faith.
