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accounting

[uh-koun-ting] / əˈkaʊn tɪŋ /
NOUN
keeping financial accounts
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In taking the top spot, Japan nudged out the U.K. last year with 3,501 establishments accounting for 130,008 jobs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

While agricultural expansion is still the leading driver of tree cover loss across the tropics, fires played a major role worldwide, accounting for 42 percent of the destruction.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

The limited age range for super catch-up contributions may be muting the benefit, according to Miklos Ringbauer, founder and principal of MiklosCPA, an accounting and tax-strategy firm.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

“This is an operational adjustment that will impact a small portion of our servers, not an accounting change,” a Meta spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

There are about seventy thousand accounting grads in India each year, he added, many of whom go to work for local Indian firms starting at $100 a month.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman




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