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Accounting for taste

16 August 2017 By Jeffrey Goldfarb

Online retailer JD generated quarterly profit of $144 mln. Apply conventional accounting practices, however, and it lost $42 mln. Alibaba also emphasizes figures that flatter by excluding stock-based pay. It widens a chasm with U.S. peers like Amazon that have kicked the habit.

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