Say I want you to enter into a "partnership" with me. We discuss it over lunch.
I'm offering you 54% of my total "revenues". That sounds alright with you. You wonder what my actual "revenues" are, and are assured, by me, that the numbers will be provided once I've got your signature on a Legally Binding Contract. Hell....You can even choose any accounting firm/auditing team you wish to go over my numbers so that you're sure everything is fair and square. But in order for you to GET the "numbers", you've got to sign on the dotted line.
So you sign......
And I immediately take the inkpen from my breast pocket, grab a cocktail napkin from the table, and start jotting down numbers.
When I'm finished, I pass the napkin across the table to you, and tell you to go ahead and take it to the accounting firm/auditing team of your choice, have them to check the figures, and let you know what YOUR cut, at 54%, will be.
All is JUST as I said it would be.
I've given you my numbers. It doesn't matter that the numbers I've given you were not exactly what you'd thought they would be, not quite an "in depth look" as to what my "revenues" REALLY are, just the numbers I've CHOSEN to give you. The numbers will stand, however, under the Terms and Conditions of the Contract, as the "real" numbers, as it was never clarified, BEFORE YOU SIGNED THE CONTRACT, just exactly WHAT numbers you would be getting.
Now.....
Take that napkin to your accountant/auditor and have him calculate out your "percentage".
Because 54% of what is written on that cocktail napkin is PRECISELY what you will get.
And not a penny more.