For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars of co-payments a customer makes directly to another company, the pharmacy, which the pharmacy collects and never remits to Merck, just does not reflect the economics of what is occurring, ... If that is what the SEC accepts, then investors are in trouble and our financial reporting indeed needs improving.  -   Lynn Turner     Quotes
For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars of co-payments a customer makes directly to another company, the pharmacy, which the pharmacy collects and never remits to Merck, just does not reflect the economics of what is occurring, ... If that is what the SEC accepts, then investors are in trouble and our financial reporting indeed needs improving. Lynn Turner
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