All numbers are NOT suspect and even your minimal amount of work / posts to sites that you have taken moments to visit have proven this fact. It's amazing how you actually show references to articles that prove how wrong you are.  Earnings, that is the numbers that YOU rely on, may in some rare instances be suspect.  And this is where you place your bets. 
Why would you ever want to use sound, correct, proven numbers? Maybe because if you ever did, it would eliminate your very stretched and totally unwarranted ability to confront, but very vaguely criticize without any merit whatsoever, proven and nationally accepted and not just accepted but employed as a standard both corporately and with Canada Revenue Agency  across this country.   
But then you know better (your 20 minutes of research as you mentioned) holds more weight than every accountant and accounting firm across the country and your single, obviously brilliant accounting and investment abilities means you are superior.