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The laptops-to-nuclear conglomerate has found some 10 new cases
of accounting errors stretching back to around 2010, although
these will not drastically affect Toshiba's forecast for an
operating profit of 170 billion yen ($1.40 billion) for the year
ended March 31, Chief Executive Masashi Muromachi told a news
conference after the company again delayed its book-closing.
Toshiba, struggling to emerge from a $1.2 billion bookkeeping
scandal, was unable to release its annual results on Monday as
planned after finding additional errors including incorrect
impairment charges on fixed assets at several subsidiaries and
improperly timed booking of loss provisions at a U.S.
subsidiary.
Muromachi said the U.S. unit was not its Westinghouse nuclear
business.
All told, the errors will not be "huge," Muromachi said but he
declined to say what the scale of the new problems might be.
(Reporting by Ritsuko Ando; Writing by William Mallard; Editing
by Louise Heavens)
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