Ping.
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, aka “cooking the books”...
One of my professors in my younger days in El Paso said simply this:
“Are accoutnants crooks? Yep. Are they as crooked as lawyers? Not yet - but they bear watchin’...”
You can go back 2 days on this same web site and get a completely different perspective, also supported by “data”.
If you want to predict accurately every time, wait until after it happens and then do a retroactive prediction.
We have markets and economies so distorted by regulations, corruption and cronyism, then lied about by government and industry analysts, anyone that is ambulatory & potty trained could be just as accurate in their predictions.