Quite the opposite. You can't fake revenue nearly as much as you can fake profits. Examples are legion - look at any company in the US that pays 0% (or negative) corporate tax rate.
You can only fake it to a certain extent since you report cash flow. Even for cash flow from operating activities Google (35%), Apple (30%), and Facebook (52%!) outshone Comcast (25%).
Bwaha, revenue can be massaged even worse. There are companies making BILLIONS in revenue, and it all sounds very impressive until you see they are actually burning more money than they are even making. Profit can’t be more than revenue, but it can certainly be negative.
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