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by crazygringo 405 days ago
No -- there's no such thing as Hollywood accounting in tech at the global level.

Yes you can certainly shift things around at the country level. But when you add up all the subsidiaries together in the single global corporation (the publicly traded one when it exists), the numbers are the numbers. Income minus expenses is a single, stable number that you can't fudge.