Tokyo – Japan’s Toshiba Corp revealed additional accounting irregularities on Friday after a multi-billion dollar accounting scandal last year, rekindling doubts over the company’s pledge to improve transparency.
The laptops-to-nuclear conglomerate said it had overstated past profits by 5.8 billion yen (51.30 million dollars) on a pretax basis due to seven new accounting errors.
The mistake was on top of the 224.8 billion in overstated profits it has already announced.
Toshiba said the company had treated the additional errors as losses in financial reports for two quarters through December.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”70560″]
However, it had not publicly announced them because the amount was below the threshold requiring regulatory disclosure.
The company “lacked awareness for appropriate disclosure”, a Toshiba spokeswoman said.
Fixing responsibilities for the latest errors, Toshiba said it had “punished” 40 more employees, in addition to 26 which it said previously had been punished.
The company has not specified what form the punishment has taken. (Reuters/NAN)