Citigroup relied on accounting gymnastics and a dubious decision to stockpile few reserves against potential loan losses in order to make a $100 million profit.
Many relied on accounting gains or onetime factors that allowed them to dress up what would otherwise have been a poor quarter, raising questions about the strength of their core businesses.
Yet such numbers relied on accounting that would make an Enron executive blush.
Instead it would rely on accounting rules for "carry-over" from an earlier period and international carbon credits.
There is also a natural reluctance on the part of many people to confidently rely on accounts of an incident that occurred thirteen years ago.
For the assassins' conduct and motives we must rely on accounts compiled more than a century later by the imperial historians Suetonius, Plutarch and Appian.
They are undoubtedly superior to traditional yardsticks of corporate performance, such as return on capital employed and earnings per share, which rely on accounting figures.
The recent decisions, by contrast, rely on accounts of witnesses, post-mortem blood testing and execution logs that seem to show that executions meant to be humane have, in fact, caused excruciating pain.
Lew says that he will rely on accounting measures to pay the bills for a few weeks.
In investigating allegations brought forward by Sherron Watkins Sherron Watkins, V&E was told to rely on accounting conclusions by Andersen and not to engage in "full blown discovery".
