English

Verb

to cook the books ‎(third-person singular simple present cooks the books, present participle cooking the books, simple past and past participle cooked the books)

1. (idiomatic) To manipulate accounting information, especially illegally.

   Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous for cooking the books.

2. (idiomatic, by extension) To falsify an account of an event.

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See also

• creative accounting
• goose is cooked
• white-collar crime