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accounting

[uh-koun-ting] / əˈkaʊn tɪŋ /
NOUN
keeping financial accounts
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Many management teams are quick to embrace fair-value accounting when it results in large, unrealized gains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The Persian Gulf is a major source of aviation fuel, accounting for about 50% of Europe's imports.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Activist involvements are rarer, accounting for only about 10% of CEO changes.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

There is, of course, no accounting for other passengers.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

Once I quit drinking and started making decent money at the little accounting firm I’d interned with, we bought the house on Overlook Road.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King




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