impairment, padded figures

"We knew the first quarter was going to be challenging," he said in a statement, "but the extraordinary disruption in the capital markets in March affected our ability to complete asset sales and resulted in higher mark-to-market losses and impairments."
mpaired performance and padded figures 怕績效商輸人或怕輸(陣)而眾矢之，以致造假

im・pair

━━ v. 害する; （価値などを）減じる, 弱める.

impair verb [T]
to spoil or weaken something so that it is less effective:
A recurring knee injury may have impaired his chances of winning the tournament.

impaired adjective
She suffers from impaired vision/hearing.

impairment noun [U]
physical/mental impairment

（人員・勘定などを）水増しする.

pad (MATERIAL)
a piece of soft thick cloth or rubber which is used to protect a part of the body, give shape to something or clean something:
a knee/shoulder pad
Footballers often wear shin pads to protect their legs.
In the 1980s, shoulder pads were very fashionable in women's clothes.
She wiped her eye make-up off with a cotton wool pad.

pad
verb [T] -dd-
to put pieces of soft material in something to make it soft, give it a different shape, or protect what is inside:
These walking boots are padded with shock-resistant foam.

padded
adjective
containing a layer of soft material used for protection or to give shape:
It's a short jacket with padded shoulders.
a padded bra (= one with extra layers of material in it to make the breasts seem bigger)

padding Show phonetics
noun [U]
1 the pieces of material used to protect something or give it shape

2 unnecessary words or information added to a speech or piece of writing:
It could have been an interesting essay, but there was too much padding.