Sentence examples for fraudulent earnings from inspiring English sources

Once the new rule goes into effect in August, he said, signing a fraudulent earnings report will open the possibility of criminal charges.

His office has charged a few dozen people with civil or criminal fraud, resulting in 14 convictions and $150 million in fraudulent earnings recovered for taxpayers, according to his resignation letter.

As part of their investigation, officials at the S.E.C. are also seeking information about Enron's efforts to market various potentially fraudulent "earnings management" techniques to other big corporations that were struggling to meet profit or revenue forecasts in 2000 and 2001, people close to the investigation said.

However, readers should note that an unscrupulous company can manufacture cash, along with fraudulent earnings.

However, both Erickson et al. (2004) and Lennox et al. (2013) cannot find a correlation between tax avoidance and fraudulent earnings management.

In 2012, Olmert was acquitted of fraud, concealing fraudulent earnings and breach of trust in connection with donations received from a New York-based financier, Morris Talansky between 1997 and 2005.

"Did you present the financial statement or participate in the audit with Ernst & Young?" But Mr. Owens repeatedly refused to answer questions from Mr. Scrushy's lawyers concerning the development of the company's internal system of checks and balances and his share of the responsibility for any fraudulent reporting of earnings.

"At the very least, options tended to promote a short-term focus," she said, "and at worst, they promoted fraudulent activity to manipulate earnings".

This study examines whether different audit procedures and attitudes conveyed to management deter aggressive earnings management that may be fraudulent, and whether such different procedures and attitudes conveyed influence managers' perceptions about the ethicality of any anticipated earnings management.

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.

[C2.] Ex-Enron Officer in Settlement Wesley H. Colwell, the former chief accounting officer of Enron's wholesale trading group, settled Securities and Exchange Commission accusations that he manipulated Enron's earnings through the use of improper and fraudulent accounting maneuvers.