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User Info CFOs Concede Earnings Are 'Managed': Study in forum [NotSoBreaking]
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A study by four prominent business school professors on earnings quality shows that 'managed' earnings are not a figment of short-seller imaginations.

In this case, the fudging relies on tools available in the gray area of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to make results look better than the underlying business really is.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cfos-conce....

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Hehehe....IBM is the great classic case of this "phenomena".

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