accounting
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- n a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes
he was unable to give a clear accounting for his actions - n a system that provides quantitative information about finances
- n the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business
- n a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts
- n a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
they send me an accounting every month - v be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- v keep an account of
- v to give an account or representation of in words
- v furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
- Some of the nation's largest accounting firms gave a clean bill of health to Bernie Madoff's funds.
- Of all professions, the staid, gray flannel world of accounting last week erupted in a name-calling civil war.
- Long regarded as an exacting and prestigious calling, the accounting profession has smarted in recent years under charges of sloppy or illegal practices that contributed to some .