NRV prevents overstating or understating of an assets value. This can be done by understating sales or overstating purchases. Understatement, or meiosis, involves deliberately understating the importance, significance or magnitude of a subject. The mechanism is aimed at plugging loopholes like overloading, understating etc. Because of this, the CPI measurement is dramatically understating the present value of the money. In August 1951, Veryard was convicted and fined for tax fraud after understating his income. This bias may have resulted in his understating British missionary activity. They also panned the movie for understating the negative effects of a possible false alarm. Senators accused President Clinton of understating the cost of the project. A few politicians of the Christian Democrats were accused of understating the attack. Exposure of the patterns and understating them play a key role in decision making process. Apparently understating, she speaks in a low, squeaky tone - a kind of laryngitic falsetto.