21.   It has always applied conservative accounting practices, never describing as fee income the portion of income it receives for guaranteeing the securitized loans on its books.

22.   Investors also seemed to put aside concerns about accounting practices.

23.   It had come under fire in recent years for accounting practices, which some analysts deemed questionable, especially how it accounted for some expenses.

24.   Italy now has the most at stake among the bigger EU countries from any revision in accounting practices.

25.   Many high-profile tech stocks have also been tainted by the Enron collapse and subsequent doubts about accounting practices.

26.   Lucent cannot take advantage of a mergers accounting practice known as a pooling of interests until this October.

27.   No one has quantified how many billions would disappear if accounting practices changed, but there are hints.

28.   Now the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating accounting practices at Halliburton Co. while the future vice president, Dick Cheney, was running the show.

29.   Of course, then questions of corporate profits, business fixed investment and accounting practices become important issues in and of themselves.

30.   One report in The Wall Street Journal suggested he was concerned about accounting practices.