Numbers dressed up in fancy suits pretending to be words.
The financial statement that shows the truth about whether a company actually generates cash, making most P&Ls look like fiction.
Money already spent that can't be recovered, which rational actors should ignore but never do, leading to terrible business decisions.
A ratio like revenue or EBITDA times some magic number to justify paying absurd prices for companies, used in tech acquisitions constantly.
How long a company takes to pay suppliers, basically measuring how shamelessly they exploit vendor financing.
Earning more money but paying a higher percentage in taxes, causing the joy of a raise to evaporate into the IRS's coffers.
A standardized set of accounting rules that ensure financial statements are consistently misleading across all companies. Compliance theater for balance sheets.