Place your bets for the weekly excuse from FAMH on the lack of an audit...
<<<NEW YORK, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- It was reported today that Firamada would announce its corporate earnings for 1997 on its newly established announcement date of March 1, 1998 and every March there after.>>>
Well, since the audit was announced to be coming out today, and this is, after all, Firamada, it will be easier to bet on which excuse for the missing audit will be used, rather than waiting for the audit to be released today.
Your contestants:
Excuse #1) We have been so busy working on acquisitions, there's just no time to do an audit.
Well, this excuse has worked pretty well in the past, but it has been put forth since December, so it might not work anymore. Worth considering, though.
Excuse #2) The auditors are working hard at it, you'll see it any day now.
See Excuse #1
Excuse #3) The final, final press release isn't done on it yet.
Not very original, but it should buy them at least a couple weeks.
Excuse #4) We don't have to give you anything until June 1.
No matter what we promised you, you shouldn't have believed it. What, you never saw an audit take six months before?
Excuse #5) We'll have that information out by the end of the day/tomorrow/week...
Everyone falls for this pretty well, let's try it again. Few even noticed the "10 a.m., 2/23" release never came out.
Excuse #6) We're still trying to make it look like we made 11 cents EPS.
Oops, did someone say that aloud? |
