Tesco, a major retailer, becomes the latest in a growing line of private sector companies that appear unable to properly manage their contracts. In this case, there is a black hole of more than $400m from over-stated revenues, apparently stemming from commercial agreements with suppliers. Essentially, I presume, Tesco has counted forward revenue (rebates) and applied it in the wrong accounting period, in order to boost results.
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