For the journalists or editors who are not intentionally distorting the news, it may not be obvious why the misrepresentations occur or which practices require change.
Mr. Richman, who believes that shill bidding and misrepresentation occur frequently online, said that his magazine had no statistics about them but was designing a research project to study online auctions systematically.
A large majority of CFOs feel that earnings misrepresentation occurs most often in an attempt to influence stock price, because of outside and inside pressure to hit earnings benchmarks, and to avoid adverse compensation and career consequences for senior executives.
Many of the simple relationships that obtain between a veridical representation and what it represents fail when misrepresentation occurs and unusual relationships take their place.
Naturalistic theories struggle to explain the aboutness of misrepresentations in particular, because the usual coordination and correlation between an organism and its environment, or between a perceiver and her world, is often disrupted when error and misrepresentation occur.
Such misrepresentation occurs more generally, if less obviously, in the form of myriad small distortions of detail and errors of register.
"Earnings misrepresentation occurs most often in an attempt to influence stock price, because of outside and inside pressure to hit earnings benchmarks, and to avoid adverse compensation and career consequences for senior executives," the report found.
However, there is no reason to think that data misrepresentation occurs only, or is worst, in this particular field.
Open Letter to the Board of H.P. Here's H.P.'s full response: H.P. has initiated an intense internal investigation into a series of accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations that occurred prior to H.P.'s acquisition of Autonomy.
Catherine Lesjak, HP's chief financial officer, explains it thus [emphasis mine]: " The majority of this impairment charge [ie write-off] is linked to serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and misrepresentations that occurred prior to HP's acquisition of Autonomy and the associated impact on the financial performance of the business over the long term".
