Of course, a skeptic (which I am not) could say that Jefferson kept his books clean so he could sell them later.
Papa had right around two hundred and fifty dollars in his purse as I had reason to know since I kept his books for him.
Jim, Matt and Chad all worked in the restaurant, doing everything from cooking to cleaning the bathrooms. (Ben was too young to work.) Janie kept the books.
Could an investor have anticipated the trouble at companies like Enron, Adelphia, WorldCom and Tyco by looking more closely at how they were governed and how they kept their books?
It was fined hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle customer complaints and sanctions by securities regulators, including enforcement actions alleging that it employed unregistered brokers and kept inaccurate books, according to regulatory documents.
They therefore kept on their books too many mortgages that should have been sold.
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Nick Leeson, the trader who sank Barings, was not just in charge of trading, he kept his own books too.
That includes a contribution from what is known as shadow banking, lending by non-bank institutions or bank credit that is kept off the books.
For example, accounting classes will stress judgment calls about what revenue can be kept off the books, along with the math behind those revenue calculations.
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Many financial observers anticipate further write-offs by U.S. banks, as they have not been forced to mark to market their entire loan portfolios, but have instead kept them on the books at their original prices or levels far higher than the current market.
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Zhongwang, based in Liaoning, kept the loan on its books but disclaimed any responsibility for repayment.
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Banks once kept such tranches on their books as a cost of doing business.
In addition to his books, Sussman kept 25 years' worth of diaries.
Then, Pavlo says, MCI kept the receivables on its books long after any real hope of collecting had vanished--with the resellers themselves, in some cases.
The one that was losing at audit because he had two sets of books (yes, actually two physical sets of books) and kept getting confused?
One explanation is that, as bank loans begin to trade in the secondary markets like ordinary bonds, the banks themselves are less interested in preventing borrowers from imploding than when they kept the debt on their books.
Banking regulators and the bank's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, were apparently deceived by the bank's software program, which kept the diverted deposits off the books.
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Baum himself wrote 14 Oz books, and his successors kept the series going with a new book annually through World War II.
Enron's collapse last December was partly blamed on questionable accounting that kept hundreds of millions of dollars in debt off its books.
Stokes, who now weighs 138 pounds, has kept the weight off for four years and authored several books on "raw foodism" lifestyle.
Apple, for instance, is rumoured to have kept the option of charging much less for popular e-books if they are being heavily discounted elsewhere.
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Until now, the majority of the prints have been kept in storage to conserve the collection and only a handful has previously been seen before, published in books.
In theory, in the worst cases, the parts of the banks that are thought to be most important to keeping the rest of the financial system functioning smoothly, for instance their deposit books and payment systems, will be quickly cut out and transplanted into a healthy bank or kept on life support.
Ms. Rowling kept the digital book rights to her Harry Potter novels and is expected to begin selling Harry Potter e-books on her website Pottermore later this year.
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