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Worldcom cooked its books by ________. the net effect of this was to make a huge loss look like a sizable profit.
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Worldcom cooked its books by about $4 billion. It was able to do this by listed expenses as capital investments. By classifying these expenditures it was able to hide big loses prompting a fraud investigation by the SEC.
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