Sentence examples for fictitious balance from inspiring English sources

We need to also remind ourselves that the mission of journalism has always been truth-seeking not, as it has often become, striking some fictitious balance between two sides.

The founder of the Indian outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services, he confessed in January to overstating Satyam's profits over several years and creating a fictitious cash balance of more than $1 billion.

To make the balance-sheet match the juiced-up income statement, documents showing fictitious cash balances were cooked up too.

Moreover, it was not sufficient for Bonlat and other group entities merely to claim fictitious cash balances.

Especially once they find that, lacking a strong advertising market, all the data they have accumulated is of little value – hence all those fictitious assets on their balance sheets.

Mr. Barry generated quarterly statements detailing fictitious trades and account balances, and promised investors they could withdraw money from their accounts whenever they chose, the complaint said.

Upstairs in the writing room, which is covered with wall-to-wall white boards outlining new plot structures and the balance of power in the fictitious parliament after recent fictitious elections, I meet Camilla Hammerich, Borgen's producer.

Kerviel, we are told, balanced his trade with fictitious transactions.

By creating a fictitious portfolio of trades that appeared to balance those he was really making, his net exposure stayed within set ranges and he remained below the radar.Why didn't the margin calls on Mr Kerviel's real trades (likely to have been of the order of €2.5 billion on a €50 billion position) trigger alarms?

In post-election Iran, the crazy-quilt check and balance system that has undergirded the fictitious use of the word "republic" in the "Islamic Republic" has proven to be a mirage.

Parmalat had claimed to have large cash balances that turned out to be fictitious.