bean counter

For everyone but the bean counters, the least important thing about an awards show is it running on time; in any case, it was only a few minutes over.

Two years ago the "bean counters" at the UK's top economic institutions were just about to come directly into the line of fire.

The current CEO is a bean counter who does not seem to understand the complexity of the process and doesn’t live in Washington state, where the bulk of the work is still done.

She can understand that Boeing’s strength is in its engineering culture, not the bean counters.

In the back of our minds, though, we always suspected that, if anyone were to do us in, it would be the corporate bean counters.