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accounting

[uh-koun-ting] / əˈkaʊn tɪŋ /
NOUN
keeping financial accounts
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In 2013, the project was forecast to cost £50.1bn in 2011 prices, which is the equivalent of about £75bn in today's money, when accounting for inflation.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Steyer said his background is completely different from the people who thought they would bring a business accounting method to state government, a belief he called “super juvenile.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

I have been asking them to provide accounting, but they are basically saying that was my mother’s business and they can’t disclose her last statement to me.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Do you expect the removal of rote accounting work to make the profession more attractive to students, or harder to break into?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Naturally, those pictorial signs consisted mainly of numerals plus nouns for visible objects; the resulting texts were merely accounting reports in a telegraphic shorthand devoid of grammatical elements.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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