accounting

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ADJ.

accepted, applied, distinct, enough, good, governmental, governmental, new

The company's accounting practices were not good enough to satisfy the auditors.

VERB + ACCOUNTING

contrast, follows, give, hand, heard, join, know, work

She finally handed accounting over to her assistant after twenty years of managing it herself.

ACCOUNTING + NOUN

department, office, people, principles, procedures, profits, swindon

The accounting department discovered several errors in last month's financial reports.

PREP.

about, from, in, with

There's no accounting for taste when it comes to music preferences.

ADV.

certainly, generally, roughly

The charity's accounting practices were generally transparent and well-documented for donors.

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noun

1

The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.

British Railways are beginning to reap the advantages of electronics applied to accounting. At Swindon Works, a computor, the first of its type to be used anywhere in the world, was installed recently to deal with the pay of some 10,000 employees.

2

A relaying of events; justification of actions.

He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time.

3

An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.

In contrast, an accounting for profits, or accounting— a distinct form of relief that the majority groups with disgorgement — has a well-accepted definition: It compels a defendant to account for, and repay to a plaintiff, those profits that belong to the plaintiff in equity.

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noun — the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and prepa

accountancy

noun — a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance

account

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there's no accounting for taste

In subjective matters of taste, people have wildly different opinions; disagreements about matters of taste cannot be objectively resolved.

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British Railways are beginning to reap the advantages of electronics applied to accounting. At Swindon Works, a computor, the first of its type to be used anywhere in the world, was installed recently

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He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time.

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In contrast, an accounting for profits, or accounting— a distinct form of relief that the majority groups with disgorgement — has a well-accepted definition: It compels a defendant to account for, and

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There is no accounting for tastes.

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Whether it's national economics, family economics, or personal economics, it's not something where sloppy accounting is good enough.

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There's no accounting for taste.

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there's no accounting for taste

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