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Creative accounting is a euphemism referring to accounting practices that may follow the letter of the rules of standard accounting practices, but deviate from the spirit of those rules with questionable accounting ethics—specifically distorting results in favor of the "preparers", or the firm that hired the accountant. Wikipedia

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Euphemism referring to accounting practices with questionable ethics, often associated with financial or securities fraud Wikidata

Financial accounting practices which are usually not explicitly illegal, but which are unorthodox, imaginative, usually misleading, and of questionable ethics. Wiktionary

Unorthodox accounting. Wiktionary (translation)

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