They're rules for how a company should keep its books so that there's some regularity and standards in how accounting is done.

准则规范了公司如何记账,并建立了一套,会计规范和标准

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We often don't we even today yes we often judge teachers by their students ? by the company they keep yes don't we?

时至今日,我们不也常常,藉由其学生或所属同僚来审视老师吗！是吧？

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Boards always want to keep their price of a share up because if it starts to decline, the company could become a takeover target; it's viewed as a failure etc., etc.

董事们想将股价维持在高水准上,因为股价一旦下滑,公司很可能会成为收购目标,被人看做是决策失误等等

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You just have to keep remembering that all that matters for a company-- for you as a--your interest in a company depends on your shares divided by the total number of shares.

你只需要记住,公司在意的只是,你在公司中的利益取决于,你的股数除以总股数

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All it can do is keep piling in the money and accumulating it and then someone will buy the whole company and then all of the shareholders will be bought out at a termination date.

他们吸进资金并不断积累,然后某人会买下整个公司,在终止日期前所有股东的股票都将被买下

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We keep all sorts of secrets in our company; we don't want to be filing all of our information all the time and to have it go right up on the website on standard forms so that everyone can easily process it.

我们希望保守公司的秘密,不愿意把公司信息归档,然后立刻以标准格式发布到网上,以便所有人浏览

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