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accountant

noun as in person who maintains financial accounts of a business

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Born in Taiwan to a mathematician father and accountant mother, Su, 55 years old, immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1970s, when she was 3 years old.

His adoptive father, Louis, was an accountant who was forever telling Larry that he was a good-for-nothing.

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Sit down with an accountant or financial adviser and write down what you’re currently paying in rent, and what you could buy in Idaho and Texas.

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Cheryl Wolf, 57, a certified public accountant in Chicago who moved to the Windy City from Texas, said the aggressive immigration enforcement is unsettling.

She thinks she will surpass him again—an achievement both she and her husband, a certified public accountant, would be comfortable with.

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