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accounting

noun as in keeping financial accounts

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In the postwar years of the 1950s, the accounting profession itself sought to manage the task through the Accounting Principles Board.

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The country now boasts more than 200 times America’s shipbuilding capacity, with its industry accounting for nearly 75% of all worldwide new ship orders last year.

Patrick James, the chief executive officer of bankrupt auto-parts supplier First Brands, has resigned his position after accounting irregularities came to light.

New directors at First Brands have said they are probing accounting irregularities associated with its complex financing arrangements.

According to UN figures released Tuesday, more than one million people have fled El-Fasher since the war began, accounting for 10 percent of all internally displaced people in the country.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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