Sentence examples for fake accounting from inspiring English sources

Leeson was trying to cover up and recoup a small initial loss with increasingly giant bets, concealed by fake accounting, and then things accelerated.

Mr. Pearlman, 53, pleaded guilty in March to charges of conspiracy and money laundering in connection with a Ponzi scheme in which he used fake accounting documents to lure people to invest in two companies that existed only on paper.

Research by John Armour, Colin Mayer and Andrea Polo at Oxford University's law faculty and the Saïd Business School, and Jonathan Karpoff at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, shows that when a corporate action harms investors (for example through fake accounting) or customers (for example through shoddy products), the company's share price drops far in excess of a fine.

I dislike ObamaCare, but I find its exaggerated claims and fake accounting more amusing than worrisome.

After poor returns in 1998, investors were sent fake accounting reports so they really thought their money was performing well.

The tweet was from a fake account.

Facebook Says It's Policing Fake Accounts.

Rooting out fake accounts is one thing.

The bank shut the fake account.

Some fake accounts look even better than real accounts do".

And not every fake account carries a household name.