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backdating

backdating

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Giving a document or record a date earlier than it really happened
  • noun
  • /ˈbækˌdeɪtɪŋ/
: fechado retroactivamente
  • Backdating backdating can lead to significant ethical issues in financial reporting.
  • backdating scandal
  • option backdating
  • backdating of stock

Examples

  • Backdating or vagaries of the clerk's office procedures?

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  • While the situation originally began as a dispute over the adoption of Memphis, it has now enlarged into a much bigger picture that includes serious ethics and legal matters, abuse of power and authority, discrimination, backdating of documents and possible records tampering, hiring practices, and in particular, cronyism and possible nepotism.

    Blog text (17)

  • The company faced legal consequences due to the backdating of stock option grants.

  • The investigation revealed that the backdating of documents was done to mislead investors.

Surface Forms

backdating singular
backdatings plural

Morphology

backdating = backdate (transparent) = back + date + ing

Formed from the verb 'backdate' with the standard -ing nominalization; the action meaning is directly derived and easily inferable from the base.

Etymology

Backdating comes from the parts back- and date ('day or time'). It literally means putting an 'earlier' date on a document than the real one, so backdating is about making something look like it happened before it actually did.