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Public companies routinely "restate earnings results" years later after a whole new C-Suite is saddled with the problem and after all the prior personnel and tr
by vmception 5y ago
Public companies routinely "restate earnings results" years later after a whole new C-Suite is saddled with the problem and after all the prior personnel and traders at the time of the original earnings already got their profits.
It is disingenuous to say this is working well, assuming "well" means "prevent lying because 'audit'". It is working well for generating profits with minimal consequences for anyone.
- yaseer 5y agoTo be clear, I wasn't implying it's working well. Just that financial statements have a legal framework and auditing system, whereas metrics don't even have that.