“It’s called creative accounting. They figure in how much profit they should have made and calculate the losses based on that figure instead of real life costs and sales. They have a fancy name for this accounting (the name escapes me right now) and it doesn’t seem legal but they do it anyways.”
What in the world are you talking about?
I read it on the internet. It has to be true.
Is that fancy similar to the phrase “cooking the books”?