迪士尼的收入可能没那么高?

举报人声称迪士尼多年来一直在虚报收入

A Disney whistleblower is telling the Securities and Exchange Commission that the company has been inflating revenues at its parks and resorts division for years, padding income by as much as $6 billion in one year alone, according to a new report in MarketWatch.

根据MarketWatch的一份新报告，迪士尼的一名举报者告诉美国证券交易委员会，该公司多年来一直在虚报其公园和度假村部门的收入，仅在一年内就增加了高达60亿美元的收入。

Sandra Kuba, a former senior financial analyst for Walt Disney Co., said employees routinely took advantage of “weaknesses” in the company’s software to inflate revenue, including by double-reporting $500 gift cards purchased by guests, and recording gift cards that were discounted or given away for free at full value.

华特迪士尼公司(Walt Disney Co.)前高级财务分析师桑德拉•库巴(Sandra Kuba)表示，员工通常利用公司软件的“弱点”来增加收入，包括双倍报告客人购买的500美元礼品卡，并打折或或完全免费的赠送礼品卡上报财务。

She said that and other shenanigans added up to billions of overreported dollars, estimating that the 2008-09 revenues report could have been overstated by as much as $6 billion. The parks and resorts division claimed total revenues of $10.6 billion in 2009, the report said.

她说，这一数字和其他一些诡计加在一起，被虚报了大概数十亿美元。她估计，2008-09财年的收入报告可能被夸大了60亿美元。报告称，公园和度假村部门2009年总收入为106亿美元。

Kuba, who worked for Disney for 18 years, said she began trying to report the irregularities in 2013, but it fell on deaf ears. She finally went to the SEC in August 2017, and was fired the following month. She’s made two SEC whistleblower filings since and, in October 2017, filed an OSHA retaliation complaint against the company — which she later dropped.

库巴在迪斯尼工作了18年，她说她从2013年开始试图报告这些违规行为，但没人理她。她最终于2017年8月进入SEC，并在随后的一个月被解雇。自2017年10月以来，她已经向SEC提交了两份举报文件，并对该公司提出了职业安全与健康管理局的报复性投诉，随后她放弃了这一投诉。

She told MarketWatch she continues to speak to the SEC — as recently as last week.

她告诉《市场观察》杂志，就在上周，她还在继续与SEC对话。

Disney spokesman David Jefferson called Kuba’s claims “utterly baseless.”

迪士尼发言人大卫·杰斐逊称库巴的说法“毫无根据”。

“This former employee, who was fired for cause, has persistently made patently false claims for over two years,” Jefferson said in an email to The Post. “The claims she made to the company were thoroughly investigated and found to be utterly baseless.”

杰斐逊在给《华盛顿邮报》的一封电子邮件中说:“这名被解雇的前雇员在过去两年多的时间里，一直在明显地做出虚假的声明。”“她对该公司的指控经过彻底调查，发现完全没有根据。”

“It is unfortunate that MarketWatch, which has been aware of the facts for months, knowingly and deliberately chose to give Ms. Kuba’s unfounded claims a platform.”

“不幸的是，市场观察公司(marketwatch)几个月来一直知道这些事实，并有意地选择给库巴女士的毫无根据的说法提供一个平台。”

But Jordan Thomas, a former SEC official interviewed in the report, suggested that Kuba’s claim is being taken seriously by the agency.

但在报告中接受采访的前美国证交会官员乔丹·托马斯暗示，该机构正在认真对待库巴的说法。

“The fact that the SEC has asked for more information more than once and conducted interviews suggests an inquiry is underway,” Thomas said.

托马斯说：“证交会不止一次要求提供更多的信息，并进行了采访，这表明调查正在进行中。”