NEW YORK (CNN/Money) -
General Electric Co. joined a growing list of companies Wednesday that have certified their financial results with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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GE CEO Jeff Immelt, along with Chief Financial Officer Keith Sherin, signed off on the conglomerate's annual results for 2001 and for the first half of 2002. The GE (GE: Research, Estimates) executives, in sworn statements filed with the SEC, said that the company's 10K financial statement for the year ended Dec. 31, 2001 and all financial results filed since that time did not contain "an untrue statement of a material fact," according to an SEC filing.
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The SEC has required CEOs of 947 public companies to certify past results by Aug. 14. The executives can submit a form letter, made under oath, declaring their past results as truthful or they must explain, in letter also made under oath, why they cannot sign the form letter.
So far, CEOs of 25 companies, including GE, Amazon.com, Corning Inc., Electronic Data Systems Corp., FedEx Corp., Oracle Corp., PepsiCo Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Southwest Airlines Co. and Texas Instruments, have certified their company's results.
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