Question of the Day #607

8 Ways Companies Cook the Books

From the headline of this article at Investopedia.

上記の文で、cook the booksの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "cook the books" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

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Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

to dishonestly change official records of how much money was spent and received

Examples

• They cooked the books to drive up the company's stock prices.
• The body of an accountant suspected of cooking the books at a local glass factory turns up in a stream. The Sun (2007)
• The committee admitted that, in its recent trials, many officials cooked the books.
• My partner had been cooking the books for years, but because I was the CEO, I got the blame for our company's collapse.
• She knew that when the auditors looked over the books there would be no hiding the fact that she had cooked the books and £3 million was missing.

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