A company whose major dependence on streams of this nature is to generate income or profit results or simply to avoid net losses can obscure serious issues with its core business. Investors should also be wary of unnatural or odd dependence on non-operating income-they probably only indicate that the company is not earning money within its core business. All those transactions of a complex or highly structured nature and, specifically, relate to parties or offshore entities should flag an alarm. Sometimes, the financial transactions may be presented in a disguise, and there is an advantage in masking the real financial position of a company