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  2. Creative accounting - Wikipedia

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    The terms "innovative" or "aggressive" are also sometimes used. Another common synonym is "cooking the books". Creative accounting is oftentimes used in tandem with outright financial fraud (including securities fraud), and lines between the two are blurred. Creative accounting practices have been known since ancient times and appear world-wide ...

  3. Albert J. Dunlap - Wikipedia

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    In the second quarter of 1998, the Sunbeam board of directors investigated aggressive accounting practices and extreme discounting, carried out at the direction of Dunlap. It turned out that Dunlap had sold retailers far more merchandise than they could handle. With the stores hopelessly overstocked, unsold inventory piled up in Sunbeam's ...

  4. Enron scandal - Wikipedia

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    An Enron manual of ethics from July 2000, about a year before the company collapsed. Enron's complex financial statements were confusing to shareholders and analysts. [1]: 6 [10] When speculative business ventures proved disastrous, it used unethical practices to use accounting limitations to misrepresent earnings and modify the balance sheet to indicate favorable performance.

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  6. SEC Investigating Accounting Practices at Xerox Unit - AOL

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    In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Xerox announced today it was under investigation by the SEC as a result of the accounting practices at Affiliated Computer Services (ACS ...

  7. Accounting scandals - Wikipedia

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    Turnover in accounting personnel or other deficiencies in accounting and information processes can create an opportunity for misstatement. As for misappropriation of assets, opportunities are greater in companies with accessible cash or with inventory or other valuable assets, especially if the assets are small or easily removed.

  8. Trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling - Wikipedia

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    Wanda Curry – chief accounting officer of Enron North America prior to Wesley Colwell displaced by Colwell, "not capable of making aggressive accounting decisions" U.S. District Judge Sim Lake did not allow prosecutors to get into details about the transaction – year-end 1999 electricity trading deal with Merrill Lynch – that prompted J ...

  9. Musk's DOGE touted slashing an $8 billion contract. It ... - AOL

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    The $7.992 billion mistake raises questions about DOGE's accounting and savings claims as it works to swiftly gut the federal bureaucracy. Musk's DOGE touted slashing an $8 billion contract. It ...