The phrase "unsound practice" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a method or approach that is flawed or not based on sound reasoning or principles. It can be used in various contexts, such as in a business setting to refer to a faulty strategy or in a scientific discussion to describe a flawed experimental process. Example: The company's decision to invest in risky stocks was an unsound practice, leading to significant financial losses.
It treated it instead as an economically unsound practice that made executives rich but harmed the companies they led and contributed to the recent financial meltdown.
Vokes said this industry reality showed itself to him as pressure to "step into unsound practice" and to "stop investigations".
Process validation was often achieved by the statistically unsound practice of demonstrating that three batches could be made, within specifications, at commercial scale and at the commercial manufacturing site.
However, the growth of marine aquaculture is threatened by its excessive reliance on fishmeal (FM) and fish oil (FO) from wild stocks for the production of fish feeds, which is also an ecologically unsound practice.
The 1974-75 recessiopenedned yawning deficits and exposed years of unsound practices.
He discovered an array of unsound practices, like using long-term debt to pay for short-term expenditures.
The chairman also says that regulators must do their jobs, maintaining "careful scrutiny and oversight so that unsafe and unsound practices do not threaten our economy".
The E.C.B. would have the power to monitor lending and capital reserves at large banks and force them to change unsound practices.
The Federal Reserve said CitiFinancial engaged in "unsafe and unsound" practices by converting personal loans into home equity loans without adequately assessing borrowers' ability to repay.
That is important because under federal law, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation can revoke a bank's insurance for engaging "in unsafe or unsound practices in conducting the business of the depository institution" that results in a criminal conviction.
Under the banking laws, a finding that a bank engaged in "unsafe or unsound practices" could result in revocation of government insurance for its deposits, which would put it out of business.
