Reply to post: GAAP is the better measure, non-GAAP typically spins the figures to look better

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GAAP is the better measure, non-GAAP typically spins the figures to look better

Surely a journalist should quote GAAP rather than non-GAAP.

If you insist on using the misleading non-GAAP figure, at least quote the GAAP figure as well.

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