False profits or false prophet?

虚假利润或是虚假先知？

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For example, some people want to make profits from their false promises such as those offered to customers by enterprises.

例如，有些人通过提供给客户错误的承诺来增加企业的利润。

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With the rapid development of economy, enterprises pursuit higher profits. Situation of false profit may occur when an enterprise cannot achieve the target profit.

随着社会经济的迅猛发展，企业追求更高的利润，当达不到目标利润时，虚增利润的现象随着而来。

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False reporting of profits caused Enron and WorldCom stockholders to lose their entire investments and sent corporate officers to jail.

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Second, private-sector decisions about saving and investment may sometimes be based on false hopes about profits and stockmarket returns hard to believe, given Wall Street's fine record these past few years, but true nonetheless.

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Ms Watkins was not slow to blame former Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling and chief finance officer Andrew Fastow as the villains of the piece, who deliberately sought by false accounting to inflate Enron's profits and conceal its losses.

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