• *Tagger*@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The 400k is a lie. It was over a million. The 400k figure was if they had applied for a tax break they didn’t apply for and had been granted it.

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      1 year ago

      If you are correcting figures one way, you have to correct them both ways. That is how financial auditors always work.

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          I am a financial accountant in a fairly large company. When external auditors look at the figures, they add up everything that they find. It doesn’t matter if the error is increasing or decreasing the profit-figure, they calculate the total of the errors.

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            1 year ago

            Ah, okay, that makes sense I guess. Seems weird from a lay point of view, but if that’s the industry standard.

            Thanks for explaining.