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mis·state

(mĭs-stāt′)
tr.v. mis·stat·ed, mis·stat·ing, mis·states
To state wrongly or falsely.

mis·state′ment n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. misstatement - a statement that contains a mistake
statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day"
mistake, error - part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors"
malaprop, malapropism - the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
slip of the tongue - an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking
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misstatement

noun
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misstatement

[ˌmɪsˈsteɪtmənt] Ndeclaración f errónea ; (deliberate) → declaración f falsa
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References in classic literature ?
I claim the right to correct misstatements, and have so corrected the color of the water in the above recapitulation.
So many volumes had been written about the poet since his death that she had also to dispose of a great number of misstatements, which involved minute researches and much correspondence.
Because, if I am not mistaken, we shall have to say that about men poets and story-tellers are guilty of making the gravest misstatements when they tell us that wicked men are often happy, and the good miserable; and that injustice is profitable when undetected, but that justice is a man's own loss and another's gain--these things we shall forbid them to utter, and command them to sing and say the opposite.
Further, control activities relevant to the audit include those control activities that the auditor judges necessary to understand in order to assess the risks of material misstatements at the assertion level.
Given that this article contains numerous misstatements of fact, we feel compelled to comment on the most egregious of those misstatements to ensure that investors are not further misled." Capelli said, "We would encourage investors to consider the source.
The Law of Misstatements: 50 Years on from Hedley Byrne v Heller (reprint, 2015)
The objective in an audit of financial statements is to determine whether they are free of material misstatement, regardless of whether that misstatement is intentional or not; in other words, a fraud examiner's priority is proving the nature and extent of a particular fraud, but an auditor's focus is detecting material misstatements.
Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) has announced that it has settled a suit with Seattle Bank that had accused the bank of making misstatements about the quality of crisis-era mortgages.
The study also investigated whether the causes of misstatements are different if the auditors are not using computerized system in audit process.
6662(b)(3) penalty for tax underpayments attributable to valuation misstatements applies to an underpayment resulting from a basis-inflating transaction that is disregarded for a lack of economic substance.
Speaking at the US Institute of Peace, Clinton said Washington has adopted a new approach through which it wants to clear all misstatements surrounding the aid bill.