Several cases have been reported of companies withdrawing flood cover, or slapping excess charges of as much as £2,500 on people who have the temerity to claim on their policies.
When news organizations reported this, the company fired back with a press release titled "LVS Fires Back at Misleading and Sensationalistic Reporting of Company's Most Recent Financial Disclosure".
Meanwhile the reporting of company news (such as Blizzard's new Overwatch game) is so co-ordinated that multiple sites post coverage within minutes of one another.
With 90 percent of the S.& P. 500 having reported, 67.2 percent of companies topped earnings expectations, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Film selections from the annual reports of companies were shown, among them those of Jamaica Water Supply Company.
There have been reports of companies putting out "new" models of TVs just for big sales events.
They have read reports of companies wildly overcharging the government for the Commonwealth games and underpaying for mobile-telephone spectrum.
Understanding the remuneration reports of companies such as Wrigley chewing gum or SunTrust Banks involves a whopping 17 years of study.
Icahn decorated his office with the trophies — framed annual reports — of companies that he had hunted, among them Hammermill Paper, Marshall Field, and the textile manufacturer Dan River.
With unemployment at 8.8percentt, Rhode Island has edged past Michigan, and every month seems to bring fresh reports of companies cutting workers, shutting divisions, closing altogether.
