#creative-accounting — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh joy, another tech company caught with its financial pants down! 🙈 Anthropic's creative accounting turns $5B into $19B faster than you can say "Enron 2.0" 🚀. Congrats on the math, guys—maybe next time try #honesty instead of hypnosis! 🤡
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/wheres-ed-anthropic-told-court-5-billion-but-public-19-billion/ #techscandal #creativeaccounting #financialtransparency #Anthropic #Enron2.0 #HackerNews #ngated -
😆 Oh look, another tech fairy tale where the wizards of AI turned out to be mere muggles with a knack for creative accounting! 🚀💸 Spoiler alert: the magic trick was on the balance sheets, and now they're magically vanishing into courtrooms. 📉🎩
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-ceo-ex-cfo-bankrupt-ai-company-charged-with-fraud-2026-04-17/ #techfairytale #AIwizards #creativeaccounting #courtroomdrama #balanceissues #HackerNews #ngated -
🤑 Ah, the art of "creative accounting" explained in a pretentious wall of text. Just reinvest, refinance, and pretend you're Robin Hood while dodging the IRS. This isn't tax evasion—it's "financial ingenuity"! 💰💼
https://taylor.town/succession-000 #creativeaccounting #financialingenuity #taxstrategy #IRSrobinhood #moneytalks #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, #Backblaze, the #cloud #storage wunderkind 🤡, where the only thing stored is their ever-growing pile of #lawsuits 📚 and "creative" accounting practices 🤥. Meanwhile, insiders are doing their best impression of a fire sale 🚪🏃💨, while investors are left clouded in confusion.
https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/ #CreativeAccounting #InsiderConfusion #FireSale #HackerNews #ngated -
How transparent is DOGE?
New York Times reports,
Listen and watch -
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHMSnk-hBI3/?igsh=a2dvNXhpbnp0NXlt
#USPol #TrumpAdministration #CreativeAccounting #FinancialReporting #Management -
If you’re having any concerns about the excessive energy uses of #AI, don’t worry - companies are working tirelessly to bring those numbers down and are not shying away from doing whatever it takes to make them look good. Heroic, really.
#SavetheAI #Google #Meta #Apple #Microsoft #LLMs #creativeAccounting #greenwashinghttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech
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I attempted to do a bank reconciliation today. But knowing what one is, it turns out, is key to actually doing it.
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I was just watching a video of a cover of Margaritaville, by Jimmy Buffett.
It reminded me of my old job, in which I worked on the websites for Jimmy's Margaritaville Resorts.
My boss was a close friend of Jimmy's. But since Jimmy was also our client, my boss would go on fishing trips with him and write it off on his taxes as a business expense.
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One thing we really like about 'constructive ambiguity' in the tax system, as outlined, is it effectively halves the value of #creativeAccounting, and the terribly lucrative taxConsultancy firms that don't really add much (if any) value to society anyway.