overstate earnings

基本解释

Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship.
工资与收入数据还夸大了困难范围。

Mr Scrushy has been charged with personally instructing senior personnel and accountants to overstate earnings and with profiting from inflated profits via share sales.
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It is quite rare for a company to have higher economic earnings than GAAP earnings given that the accounting rules enable companies to overstate their GAAP profits so easily.
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