But there have also been questions raised about Ahold's accounting practices in its Latin American and Swedish operations.
Perhaps the biggest problem facing IT today is that its accounting practices are substantially immature.
He is particularly incensed about the diversity of accounting practices in the oil and gas industry.
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If it were the trick of accounting practices that all fair trade and all balanced.
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Likewise, earnings multiples are often difficult to standardize due to the variable accounting practices across companies.
Indeed, the latest investigation into Tyco's accounting practices gives it a surprisingly clean bill of health.
The accounting practices at the Texas-based Halliburton Corp. are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Livent's new managers, led by Hollywood dealmaster Michael Ovitz, had known about Drabinsky's profligate spending and imaginative accounting practices.
The accounting practices of those that survived the financial crisis remain murky and their executives remain safe from prosecution.
In Fedville, accounting practices do not have to abide by generally accepted rules.
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Out go outfits with heavy exposure to cyclical commodities or peculiar accounting practices.
Last month came revelations of suspect accounting practices at Nippon Credit Bank, which hid massive losses in dummy companies.
Lay good ground work during the year in your accounting practices and your year end should take no time at all.
This ensures a bit of volume and some uniformity in accounting practices.
Mr Robinson says he has no knowledge of the poor accounting practices.
He was among the first to point to dodgy accounting practices at AAIPharma before that company fell into bankruptcy (it has since reemerged).
As an analyst earlier in his career he called companies out for accounting practices that exaggerated growth, and was fired for doing so.
Diamond Foods shares tumbled Monday morning after the snack food company released an update on an investigation into its own accounting practices this quarter.
In 2010, a U.S. executive for Autonomy pointed out what he thought were problematic accounting practices to his superiors, say people briefed on the matter.
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Today things are different, the Labor Department is saying when it changes its accounting practices to categorize people within a wider range of duration of unemployment.
Sarbanes-Oxley, the often-reviled law that requires enhanced disclosure of accounting practices, seems to have put a stop to the backdating practice after its passage in 2002.
"We meet with lots of people ... we meet with representatives of many investment groups, " Pitt said, adding that Xerox was fined heavily for its accounting practices.
Companies in industries like tobacco tend to use very conservative accounting practices, in part because they know that their actions draw additional scrutiny from regulators, Kacperczyk says.
Its accounting practices troubled Wall Street for years, while service breakdowns caused by under-investment in carrying capacity made Mr Case one of the most loathed men in America.
We have since discovered the details of the unorthodox accounting practices and advertising deals done to boost AOL's earnings and share price in the run up to the merger.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced in 2001 that it was investigating the accounting practices of Enron after several years of questions raised by analysts and shareholders.
This is not to say that there is anything dodgy going on or that the accounting practices would not be supported by independent organisations or followed by other countries.
Apple insists it pays substantial taxes, but in a world still mostly deeply mired in recession, fiscal crisis and high unemployment, its sophisticated accounting practices are, to say the least, troubling.
At least one year before the H-P acquisition, an Autonomy executive brought concerns about the company's accounting practices to U.S. regulators including the SEC, according to people familiar with the matter.
He said the Council has not done enough to provide information to the Parliament about its accounting practices, saying "the Council pays scant attention to us, there is not enough co-operation".
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