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window dressing

Use of creative accounting practices to make the financial situation in the accounts appear better than the position in reality. This might include executing a sale and leaseback deal just before the end of the financial year. This has the result of securing a quick cash injection and artificially improving the liquidity ratio.

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Basinger, Kim			The consultation process appeared to the public as little more than a piece of window dressing for a decision which to all intents and purposes had already been taken. Post Office talks a "sham" by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) LDP leader Jovan Manasievski assessed that the proposed Budget revision is just window dressing aimed at creating the impression that the Government is taking measures. Opposition criticizes budget revision by INFOMAC Daily News Service The former Europe Minister later accused Gordon Brown of having a two-tier Cabinet and of using women as window dressing - a claim ridiculed after the glamorous MP posed in a glossy magazine photo shoot. 'Caroline is very ambitious and she went off in a huff' SHORT ON FLINT by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)			Winchilsea, Anne Finch, Countess of Winckelmann, Johann Joachim WinCode wind wind farm Wind in the Willows, The wind instrument wind machine wind power Wind River Indian Reservation wind turbine wind-chill factor Windaus, Adolf Otto Reinhold windcap windfall profit windfall tax Windham Windham, William Windhoek Windischgrätz, Alfred, Prince von windmill Windmill Hill Windmill Theatre Windom, William window window dressing Window Rock window tax Windows Windows Open Services Architecture Windows WAVeform Windows-Based Terminal windpipe Windscale Windsor Windsor and Maidenhead Windsor County Windsor Locks Windsor, Duke of Windsor, House of windsurfing Windward Islands wine wine, fortified Winehouse, Amy Winfield Winfrey, Oprah Gail wing Wingate Wingti, Paias Winkler			window blind Window Blind Manufacturers Association Window Blinds Window Blinds window board Window bole Window bole window box window box window box window boxes window boxes window casing window catch Window Circulating Water System window cleaner window cleaner's anchor window cleaner's platform Window cleaning window configuration Window contract Window Correlation Matching Method Window Covering Manufacturers Association Window Covering Safety Council Window Coverings Association of America window crown window divider window divider window divider window dresser window dressing Window Edge Coordinate window editor Window Energy Rating Window Energy Rating System window envelope window envelope window envelope window envelope window envelope Window Envelopes Window Envelopes Window Experiment Window Fashions Certification Program Window Fashions Certified Professional Window film Window for Information Communication and Entertainment window frame window frame Window frames Window frames window frost window furniture Window GIC Window GICs window glass window glass window glazing bar window glazing bar Window Guaranteed Investment Contract Window Guaranteed Investment Contracts

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