Big bath

Definition:

Big bath is a business strategy in which a company manipulates its income statement to make poor results look even worse. Strategy being that the following year will show significant improvement. Big bath is sometimes employed by new CEOs to make their first years results more impressive by employing big bath accounting to prior year results.

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Term: Accounting -> Big bath

Big bath

Operating Expenses and Equipment

Production cycle

It will help you work out how quickly you can pay off a loan if you increase your monthly repayments

This calculator is designed to help you estimate your return on investment from a marketing campaign

How much life insurance do you need? Enter your current assets, expenses, income

Browse by categories

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