Goals Lead to Dell Cooking the Books
Aug 17, 2007, 15:45 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Erica Ogg)
"Though Dell has finished an internal investigation into its
accounting practices, there are still plenty of questions about the
company, which not long ago could do no wrong in the minds of
investors and customers.
"What we know now, is that Dell's finance department was
apparently willing to fudge numbers to ensure it would hit or
surpass its quarterly earnings forecasts. They seem to have done
that with the knowledge of, or sometimes at the request of, senior
executives..."
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