cooking the books
Definition
Falsification of accounting records to give a misleading picture of a firm's financial position or the results of its operations. Unlike creative accounting, it is an illegal practice.
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cooking the books is in the Accounting & Auditing and Banking, Commerce & Finance subjects.
cooking the books appears in the definition of the following term: creative accounting
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