Those credits, for which the BNDES has offered IOUs, have led to accusations of creative accounting.
The result is an absurd combination of creative accounting, pointless penny-pinching and helpless inaction.
The Treasury Department will now use a series of creative accounting measures to keep the nation operating.
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Now Bundesbank council members have accused the government of indulging in more creative accounting than any other country.
We're talking creative accounting here: donors are even being asked to sign confidentiality agreements before seeing the latest schemes.
Only indirect subsidies, creative accounting, political patronage and national chest-thumping keep them rolling.
Mr Son has found it hard to kick his habit of creative accounting.
Senior lawyers tend to dismiss such ideas: law is a creative business, they say, whereas creative accounting puts you in jail.
Critics were initially placed on the back foot, but soon discovered that the headline figures were hugely inflated by creative accounting techniques.
They are positioned directly in the political cross-hairs, and it is a near certainty that some creative accounting will not pass the muster.
So limits on bank compensation are fighting an uphill battle, and bankers will find ways around them via creative accounting and clever compensation packages.
To some, routing the extra spending through an EU agency rather than putting it through the books of member governments smacked of creative accounting.
Despite strong tax receipts, the government will balance its books this year thanks only to the sale of oil concessions and some creative accounting.
The banks are hiring more auditors to stem such creative accounting.
Cardinal Dolan "did a lot of creative manoeuvring of priest sex offenders and creative accounting of church money, " said Peter Isley, a director of the group.
There is a correlation between the amount of creative accounting that went on in the euro zone in the decade to 2003 and government-bond yields now.
There are very few people left in the world who think that it will, or at least not without aggressive new cuts or some very creative accounting.
People from this industry also take more time filling out the expense claims than their colleagues, taking an average time of 32 minutes a month for creative accounting.
And then there is Vivendi, a sewerage-to-films conglomerate that Jean-Marie Messier, its French boss, ran into the ground through a combination (familiar to Americans) of hubris and creative accounting.
As the law stands now, the many, many people who are sharing passwords to get their dragon and swords fix are actually committing a misdemeanor and potentially, with some creative accounting, a felony.
PAN's but in fact is more like creative accounting: it would bring forward the day when the banks have to meet the share of the dud debt that they agreed to at the start, when they sold their loans to Fobaproa.
This smells like a typical government deal with creative-accounting gimmicks, carve-outs and plugs to kick-the-problem-can down the road.
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Businesses and economies should be rewarded for profits and growth, not for creating a creative new accounting system that makes money appear out of thin air.
Just a few pages later we hear from Ken Lay, the CEO of Enron who died in 2006 shortly before being sentenced for securities fraud connected to the most well-known financial fraud of the decade, which set a new standard for creative criminal accounting.
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Under Mr Welch, GE's accounting was so creative it could be hung on the wall of the Museum of Modern Art (although it was all within legal bounds).
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"Accounting just doesn't get that creative, " Watkins testified.
But while movie studios need to turn profits, they are not just accounting divisions of bigger companies, they are creative divisions.
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