Sentence examples for liabilities off from inspiring English sources

Among them: reverse the FASB's "all-or-nothing" off-balance-sheet rules, but improve disclosure and risk allocation whenever a bank or corporation shifts assets and liabilities off to a shell company set up for the purpose.

Spending by non-governmental public entities is another way to keep liabilities off the books.

Like Enron, Penn Square amassed huge liabilities off the balance sheet, which contributed to its demise.

Companies use a variety of permitted devices besides SPEs to push either assets or liabilities off their balance sheets.

Hiding liabilities off the balance sheet and gambling for resurrection are among the primary causes of the current financial crisis.

The market survived only because of a radical reorganisation that hived Lloyd's of London's long-term liabilities off into a reinsurance vehicle named Equitas.

Nor do they fully report the emergence of new sorts of assets (such as intangible assets) and liabilities (off-balance-sheet financing, derivative contracts, etc).

You correctly give the budget deficit of 8% of GDP in 1984 but understate the true position because of the large number of contingent liabilities, off-budget transactions and unrecorded government guarantees.

The threat of liability set off a predictable round of finger-pointing.

By including nondeposit liabilities and off-balance sheet exposures, like special types of borrowings, the rule would limit the ability of banks to hide their risks in more volatile and exotic securities.

A German taxpayers' watchdog group charged the government in 1997 of masking the size of its budget deficit by using one-time items like the sale of state assets and hiding liabilities in off-budget accounts.