Sentence examples for led to overstated from inspiring English sources

In August the firm's shares sank when it said software glitches had led to overstated 2003 earnings.

In the wake of the recent Global Crossing bankruptcy, telecom investors have grown fearful that aggressive accounting practices may have led to overstated results for some firms.

Respondents were informed that the answers provided were going to be used to select winners of a quality assurance award which may have biased their responses and possibly led to overstating the nature of current quality assurance systems.

The collection of data relied heavily on informants' reports of normative behavior in response to questions posed in a context far removed from the immediate stress and uncertainty of managing a child's actual illness which could lead to overstating perceived norms, underestimating, or downplaying the extent to which people normally deviate from them.

And underestimation of repulsion forces leads to overstating of interaction energies and, as consequence, decreasing of distances between atoms in the equilibrium state.

Parents were aware of whether their child had received the intervention, which may have led to response bias whereby parents overstated improvements in their child in response to the intervention.

The backdating led Monster to overstate net income by $340 million from 1997 to 2005, the S.E.C. said.

The state insurance commissioner asked an outside firm to conduct an independent review; it found significant errors in the company's calculations, which had led it to overstate its medical costs.

The Federal Reserve made an error in its stress test of Citigroup that led it to overstate a crucial measurement of losses on the bank's mortgages, the central bank acknowledged on Friday.

Tesco shares have lost around 15% of their value this week after it unveiled a surprise profit warning on Monday and admitted to accounting errors which led it to overstate its first-half profit by £250m.

The advertising industry let out a collective groan in September when Facebook admitted a "discrepancy" in its reporting that led it to overstate how much time, on average, viewers were watching video.