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.
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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".
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The computer giant announced last month that it was writing down the value of Autonomy by $8.8 billion, in part because of "accounting improprieties, misrepresentations and disclosure failures".
