Under Armour facing potential SEC enforcement over accounting practices
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Aaron Nicodemus2020-07-27T18:30:00
Under Armour revealed in a regulatory filing that its accounting practices are the subject of a pending enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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