'improprieties' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that means actions or behavior that are socially inappropriate or unacceptable. For example, "The CEO was accused of multiple improprieties, including misappropriation of funds and breach of trust."
Last month, HP stunned investors when it announced it was taking an $8.8bn charge against the $11.1bn it had paid for the British company it had bought from Lynch the year before, and said that over $5bn of that write-off stemmed from "accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and misrepresentations" – charges all denied by its ex-boss.
In June a former governor of Santa Cruz denounced improprieties in oil contracts, while the economy minister, Felisa Miceli, was forced to account for a bag allegedly containing $240,000 found in a cupboard in her office (only $60,000, she said, and intended for a property purchase, though she has not provided details).In addition, the government has started losing local elections.
It promised to investigate the accounting improprieties of "unprecedented magnitude"; and it briskly charged WorldCom with fraud.
He claims that the Riau government has spent 10 billion rupiah ($1.1m) on an as yet invisible stadium, and another 37 billion on a phantom cultural centre.These improprieties stem from flaws in the devolution law.
The "Extraordinary Chambers" have already suffered extraordinarily complex internal disputes and accusations of various improprieties, political interference and even outright corruption.
Unfortunately, the Soka Gakkai has not forgiven the ruling party for accusing its honorary president, Daisaku Ikeda, of sexual improprieties.
CRITICISMS of Romanian corruption and democratic improprieties are common enough in Brussels.
On November 20th HP admitted that it had overpaid and claimed that it had been duped.HP said it was writing down the value of Autonomy by $8.8 billion, ascribing more than $5 billion of that to "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations" before the deal.
Hewlett-Packard stunned investors by accusing the former management at Autonomy, a British software firm that it bought for $10.3 billion in 2011, of "accounting improprieties, misrepresentations and disclosure failures".
When news of the alleged improprieties began to emerge in May, Mr Chubais wrote to USAID asking it to terminate the institute's contracts in Russia.
Many are heartened that corruption, long endemic in politics, is being attacked and that a former president can stand trial like a common citizen.Critics, however, say recent judicial proceedings have been marred by sloppy improprieties, and, some allege, bias towards the Nationalist party, the Kuomintang or KMT, which took power last May under President Ma Ying-jeou.
