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We all know that on the world's most successful growth market EBITDA is a popular way to present bad numbers as good ones. But what do those letters really stand for? Post your answers in the comments section below.
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Comments
Julian
Ethically Benign Improvisation of Total Dross Accounting
Pousis
Easy Bonus (for board) If Totally Delicious Announcement
Antondec
Economic Bollocks In Terms Deceiving All
Jonathan Capper
EBITDA is for wimps.
To get a real flavour of how dire a Companies prospects are look for adjusted EBITDA.
Look at BLNX.
PJBCHELSEA
Erroneous bollocks in totally deceiving accounts
Richard T
Every Bit of Income to Totally Drown Accruals
Inbrackets
Everything But Information To Do Analysis
Nigel Somerville
Or even adjusted underlying core EBITDA!
MARYMARY
Every body invents the data again
JASPERTHERDOG
Erroneous Balances Intended To Divert Attention
VINES
Earnings Brown In Toilet, Dung Actually
Chester
Earnings Before Interested Tom Demolished Accounting
Gareth Jones
Economically bloated information to divert attention
SHOW ME THE CASH
Egregious Bullshit Intended To Deceive Airheads
SHOW ME THE CASH
Earnings Bloodbath In Truth. Disguise Appropriately.
Drunken Sailor
Egregious Buffoonery Invented To Dissemble Atrocities
Bob the Brush
Earnings Blatantly Inflated To Deceive All
Craig
Elephant bollocks invented to delude accountants
D_Stone
Excrement Blasted Insidiously To Disguise All
BobbyChariot
Easily bewildered idiots take dick again
For the BBM’s.