Bank of America (BAC) was able to swing to a profit with one-time accounting boosts, but core earnings remained poor.
But sometimes I have a hard time accounting for the fact that I must have loved my first wife, too.
HSBC's underlying profits - which ignore one-time accounting effects as well as the impact of changes in the bank's creditworthiness - rose 18%.
The social network's app was the single largest, single app time suck, accounting for 23% of the time people spend using mobile apps, according to comScore.
Dolan was either president or chief executive during the time when the accounting irregularities occurred.
Groupon (GRPN) has a troubled business model that it tries to cover up from time-to-time with shady accounting.
BP, for example, had a disappointing Q2 where production fell, while Exxon Mobil cranked out profits that were based on one-time items and accounting moves.
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That would make it the second-biggest opening of all time, not accounting for inflation, behind only last year's "The Avengers, " also from Disney's Marvel Studios superhero unit.
And the problem is that the pain and time of tax accounting, tax preparation, is entirely unaccounted for in the deliberations of those who design the tax system.
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The jury members have seen a slew of witnesses who have consistently corroborated evidence that Lay and Skilling lied to shareholders while at the same time ordering fraudulent accounting practices to the benefit of their own greedy pockets.
Plus, it takes regulators time to issue new accounting guidance for new industries, like social media and cloud computing.
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Mr. Lynch, in an interview at the time, denied any accounting irregularities.
Other pluses: quick switching, a single periodic statement and easier accounting at tax time.
And that's not accounting for the time that he and his lab members devoted to breeding the animals.
The Wall Street Journal got huge bang for their buck when they brought Michael Rapoport out from behind the Dow Jones News Wire pay wall recently to cover the accounting industry full time.
He expects IT departments and back office administrators will use regulatory demand to persuade senior executives that it is finally time to invest in new accounting systems, something many people in operations have wanted for years.
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Yet as long as these subsidies and tax credits exist, clean-energy executives will likely spend most of their time pursuing advanced legal and accounting methods rather than investing in studies, innovation, new transmission technology and turbine development.
Dynamic pricing allows greater pricing flexibility by accounting for real-time changes in consumer demand.
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It may be a long time before there is a full accounting of any harm done.
FH, which is contesting the penalty, says it was just following accepted accounting principles at the time.
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H-P's internal team was aware of talk about accounting irregularities at the time the deal was struck, people familiar with the matter have said.
Deep inside MCI's Ashburn, Va. headquarters, its walls are plastered with flow charts aimed at having hundreds of accounting tasks completed in time for its expected emergence from bankruptcy.
In her spare time, since retiring from the accounting department where she worked for 34 years at Goodyear, she has been writing down her story with the hopes of publishing it.
It is time for common sense to come before accounting purity and cut our losses.
However, additional analysis may reveal the hit to earnings was a one time event, or maybe even an accounting irregularity.
The electronic receipts gave Leahy an accounting in close to real time of how his wife spent money while they were apart.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev studied accounting as a part-time student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston for three semesters from 2006 to 2008, the school said.
Curbs imposed after the accounting debacle limited the damage this time.
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