That helped keep the charade going until news of Fastow's off-the-books paychecks emerged in 2001.
Real estate in India is full of off-the-books transactions, the better for tax dodges and to avoid once-prohibitive mortgage terms.
It's the currency of choice for tooth fairies and grandparents, panhandlers, migrant laborers and off-the-books household staff.
Why did U-Haul have an off-the-books entity hold title to its storage centers?
Both Enron stars learned their lessons (about off-the-books subsidiaries and financial engineering, for example), and they taught them to the world.
Because their accounting is off-the-books and the ownership of these businesses is notoriously opaque, it is difficult to gauge their value.
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One panel member, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru, observed at a forum on the paper that countries employing "Champagne labor laws with beer incomes" are asking for off-the-books economies.
But with the vast majority of married couples filing jointly, some spouses are bound to run off, lie about their off-the-books income, wind up in trouble, or otherwise leave their spouse holding the bag.
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The numbers are hard to estimate, but between direct hiring, hiring through labor contractors, and off-the-books work beside parents or for cash, perhaps 400, 000 children, some as young as 6, weed and harvest for commercial farms.
Some of the lower-skilled workers who would lose out in a higher-entry-wage environment might be absorbed, off the books, by the cash-in-hand labor market.
The asset-backed market is limited because it takes the best assets off Ford's books, leav-ing other creditors with less security.
In 2010, South Korean researchers successfully created 3-D animated children's e-books in which characters leap off the page technology which could soon find commercial applications.
Most commentators believe that REIT earnings will grow at 10% per year for the next couple of years as below-market leases move off the books.
Another is the credit for first-time homebuyers that went off the books after 2010.
Hopewell has also gotten flak for breaking the cardinal rule of mega-projects: Keep the costs off your own books.
The reason for the write-off is the gaping difference between the value of Smith Barney assets on the books of Morgan Stanley and Citigroup.
After Macaulay got word at a dinner that Dresser-Rand might be turning around, he approached Ingersoll-Rand with a deal to get the unit off its books without taking a writedown.
Without some form of encryption to prevent pirating, copies of e-books can be run off by the thousand.
Apart from fending off interlopers from the Internet, Japanese publishers see e-books as a way of slashing the costs of production and distribution, which currently account for more than 75% of the total.
They are weakly regulated and thus are able to handle huge financial sums for parties who want to remain anonymous, moving money in and out of secret foreign-bank accounts and then on and off the books of legitimate companies in open commerce.
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His government has ordered Bank Negara to redefine non-performing loans to get many of them off the books.
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.
But after eating a big chunk of Hampton's contract to get him off the books, the reality set in that the middle-market ball club would need to win with younger, cheaper players.
Spending by non-governmental public entities is another way to keep liabilities off the books.
Charge-off rates, the value of loans removed from a company's books and charged against loss reserves, are not necessarily the best indication of lender performance.
The eggs' descriptions in history books served as jumping-off points.
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And let's take on Medicare and Medicaid in a serious way -- which is not just a matter of taking those costs off the books, off the federal books, and pushing them onto individual seniors, but let's actually reduce health care costs.
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RFF's books, in effect writing off the infrastructure investment of building the high-speed network.
Every few seconds a wine like the '61 seems to throw off a new sense memory: balsam, leather-bound books, black tea, chocolate-covered raisins, dried cherries.
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