cookie-jar accounting

English

Noun

cookie-jar accounting (uncountable)

  1. An accounting practice in which a company takes a quantity of large reserves from an economically successful year and incurs them against losses from less successful years, potentially misleading investors into believing that their losses are less than the actual value.
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