1.   Great ingenuity was expended in creative accounting to get round overall spending limits or capital allocations.

2.   That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shifting definitions of carbon sinks, and so on.

3.   Analysts say that Hong Kong Telecom can charge excessive fees for linking into its network through creative accounting or drag its feet on connection work.

4.   And investors accused the company of obscuring poor financial results through creative accounting.

5.   Braude said the language in the bill is so broad that defense contractors could avoid meeting the job guarantees altogether by using various forms of creative accounting.

6.   Bull markets may not cause companies to fiddle with their books, but they certainly increase the rewards to be gained from creative accounting.

7.   But with creative accounting, states have used some of the windfall on tax cuts, roads and prisons.

8.   Call it a case study in creative accounting.

9.   Creative accounting is a virtual tradition here.

10.   Enron gave off flashes of brilliance even as its financial wizardry and creative accounting spun the company out of control.