11.   Even so, those additional cuts in the Senate plan may reflect creative accounting in the House.

12.   Next was the bleak financial portrait of the game, one that is a testament to creative accounting.

13.   Not about corporate profits or creative accounting.

14.   Officials acknowledged that some creative accounting was used to arrive at the figure, and no mechanism exists to guarantee that the amounts pledged will in fact be given.

15.   Schiff also said that he believes some creative accounting adopted from private-sector examples will be done by members to keep their budgets down.

16.   Stefan doubts anything will get done, forcing funeral directors to cut corners or resort to creative accounting.

17.   That bit of creative accounting allowed the Patriots to offer Johnson the kind of money he and agent Jack Mills were seeking and stay under the salary cap.

18.   The department has used creative accounting to assess huge penalties against everything from Colombian roses to Chinese honey to bomb-grade Russian uranium.

19.   The Republicans were already using creative accounting to try to avoid appearing to run the surplus into a deficit.

20.   The way for these selective tax cuts was cleared not just with forecasts that made no allowance for contingencies, but with creative accounting worthy of Enron.