Investors Should Stick to Their (Accounting) Principles

To be fair, the Singapore-based and U.S.-listed company isn’t hiding its numbers based on generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. Dig down to page 7, though, and you’ll discover that the GAAP figure was more than 20 percent lower at $827 million. Interestingly, if the release had led with this figure the company could have correctly pointed out that GAAP sales doubled from a year earlier.