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READING
BETWEEN
THE LINES OF
CORPORATE
FINANCIAL
REPORTS
In Search of
Financial Misstatements
JACEK WELC
Reading Between the Lines of Corporate
Financial Reports
Jacek Welc
Reading Between
the Lines of Corporate
Financial Reports
In Search of Financial Misstatements
Jacek Welc
SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences
Berlin, Germany
Wroclaw University of Economics
Wrocław, Poland
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Preface
v
vi Preface
ix
x Contents
Appendix 312
References 318
References 417
Index 425
List of Charts
xix
xx List of Charts
xxi
xxii List of Examples
The sap season throughout the maple sugar belt of the United
States generally begins about the middle of March and continues
until the third week in April but it varies very widely with a late or an
early spring. Sugar making has begun as early as February 22 and
as late as the first week in April. The season lasts on an average
about four weeks. The longest run on record included forty-three
days, and the shortest eight days.
LARGE MAPLE SUGAR CAMP IN CENTRAL VERMONT.
Maple Rolls.
One quart of bread dough when it is moulded for the last raising,
mould in a cup of maple sugar, ¼ teaspoonful of soda, 1 tablespoon
of butter. Let it rise and mould again and cut out, rise and bake.
These are very nice.
Fritters.
Three eggs, 1 tablespoonful sweet cream, ½ teaspoonful salt, 2
cups of sweet milk, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, about 4 cups of
flour. Mix the baking powder thoroughly with the flour, add the flour to
the milk, add the salt, then the eggs well beaten. Fry in hot lard.
Serve hot, with warm maple sap syrup.
Baked Apples.
Pare and core some good tart apples, put them in a shallow
earthen dish; fill the center where the core has been taken out with
granulated maple sugar, add water to cover bottom of dish. Bake in a
moderate oven until soft, basting often with the syrup.
Apple Pudding.
One layer of wheat bread sliced thin, 1 layer of sliced apples, put
on another layer of bread and apples and so on alternately until the
dish is full; flavor with lemon, pour over all two teaspoons water;
cover and bake one-half hour. To be eaten with maple syrup.
Berry Pudding.
1 pint flour, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, ½ teaspoon of soda,
milk enough to make a little thinner than biscuit, add 1 pint of berries;
boil 1 hour.
The sauce (served hot): 1 cup of maple sugar, ⅔ of cup of hot
water, 1 tablespoonful of flour, butter size of an egg.
Let come to a boil, then pour it over a well beaten egg, stirring the
egg. Flavor.
Nut Cake.
One cup maple sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of chopped raisins, 3
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, ½ cup of sweet milk, 2 eggs, 1 cup of
chopped English walnuts.
Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar gradually, and when light
add the eggs well beaten, then the milk, and last the flour in which
the baking powder has been thoroughly mixed. Mix this quickly and
add the nuts and raisins. Bake in rather deep sheets in a moderate
oven about 35 minutes.
Marble Cake.
Yolks of 4 eggs, ½ cup of butter, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 1½ cups
flour, ½ cup of maple molasses, ½ cup sour cream, spices of all
kinds.
For the light part: Whites of 4 eggs beaten to a froth, ½ cup of
butter, ½ teaspoon of cream tartar, ½ cup of flour, 1 cup of white
sugar, 2 tablespoons of sweet milk, in which dissolve ½ teaspoon of
soda.
Apple Cake.
One cup thinly sliced sweet apples cooked until transparent (in
one cup maple sugar, and water to make a good syrup); when cool,
add 1 cup dry maple sugar, 2 eggs, 1 heaping teaspoonful mixed
spices, ½ cup of butter, ½ cup cream, 1 teaspoonful soda, flour till
the spoon will stand in the middle without falling.
Ginger Snaps.
1. Two cups maple sugar, 1 cup sour cream, 1 teaspoonful soda,
flour enough to make a stiff paste, 1 cup butter, 2 eggs, 2
tablespoonfuls ginger.
Roll thin and bake quick.
2. One cup maple molasses, 1 teaspoonful each of soda and
ginger, ⅔ cup butter, mix hard and roll thin.
Maple Sugar Cookies.
Two cups of maple syrup, 1 cup of sweet milk, flour enough to roll
—about 5 cups, 1 cup of butter, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. 4
eggs.
Beat the sugar and butter to a cream, add the eggs well beaten,
add the milk, next the flour in which the baking powder has been well
mixed. Roll and cut in any form to suit the taste. Bake in a moderate
oven.