If a bank loan goes into default, it makes sense to write it off the books.
Another is the credit for first-time homebuyers that went off the books after 2010.
Spending by non-governmental public entities is another way to keep liabilities off the books.
Some admit they helped finance political parties off the books, which is illegal but common in Brazil.
His government has ordered Bank Negara to redefine non-performing loans to get many of them off the books.
The positive is that big salaries like Oliver Perez, Carlos Beltran and Luis Castillo come off the books.
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Many families that would rather hire a nanny legally go off the books just to avoid the bureaucratic entanglements.
But rather than take the FCPA off the books, the U.S. government pushed other countries to adopt similar standards.
One way companies are responding to pension underfunding is by making settlements with participants to get them off the books.
"There is no ebitda if you take the leasing transactions off the books, " concedes Daniel Cohrs, Global's chief financial officer.
And once people get into the habit of doing things off the books, the road to perdition is wide open.
Bond investors were further unnerved by the revelation that Greece's debt had been understated by keeping unpaid bills off the books.
Your neighbor has her nanny off the books to avoid payroll taxes.
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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With this law off the books, it would be easier for raiders to ambush sleepy boards of directors by quietly accumulating voting control.
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.
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.
Regulators said that bonds remain off the books temporarily, reducing banks' and brokerage houses' official debt levels and allowing them to invest in more debt.
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.
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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He is proud to support the Respect for Marriage Act, introduced by Senator Feinstein and Congressman Nadler, which would take DOMA off the books once and for all.
' I feel better taking those things off the books so there's no connection between what they did and myself, even though every penny received was received legally and reported.
Federal agents said the defendants paid the workers a pittance off the books, then used the money they saved on labor to buy Mercedes and nice big houses in the suburbs.
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.
The central government, in response to the 1990s crisis, took bad loans off the books of the four largest banks by having newly formed asset management companies buy troubled assets at above-market values.
In March France Telecom, with nearly euro70 billion in debts, launched a huge bond issue which helped to take euro10 billion of loans off the books of its banks and refinance euro6 billion of maturing bonds.
About 40% of that revenue would be a result of not extending the 2001-03 tax cuts for high-income households and another 30% would come from the deduction cap (so you could wipe that off the books already).
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