How to Use accounting in a Sentence

accounting

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  • At last accounting, there was $13 million cash in the bank.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The cost of that dinner was recorded in accounting books as $2,800.
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This is an earnest accounting of the West that didn’t make it into most John Wayne movies.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2023
  • If not, he’s got his accounting degree to fall back on.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Sanders has blamed an accounting error for the dispute.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
  • And then there’s all the accounting paperwork to be done after winning a grant.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But a final accounting will take time, or may never come.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Sarah Dadouch and Kareem Fahim, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Now, in the tragic accounting of one of the world’s most entrenched conflicts, everyone is.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Any honest accounting of their play swerved once again Saturday night, and not in a way that would make any of them want to keep reading.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Again, note this project was released on June 16 (less than two weeks before the end of the report’s accounting period).
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Our budgets include all of that, so there’s some accounting context that gets lost.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
  • With the petition Oher wants a full accounting of the money the Tuohy’s earned using Oher’s name, and to have the couple pay him his fair share of profits.
    — Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
  • That accounting trick has been easier to prove out on paper than in practice.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The next accounting maneuver that Yellen can take, in early June, is one that will have no real long-term impact if the debt ceiling is raised.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 23 May 2023
  • Fisker said a new chief accounting officer began work this past week.
    — Sean McLain, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Amateurs at accounting, along with everything else, the couple stashed their bills in piles, paying from the top down.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The movie’s screenwriter, Ed Solomon, has spoken out about the accounting shenanigans that make that possible.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 19 July 2023
  • The situation is so dire that many smaller accounting firms have pulled back from audit work.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Tom Hough largely spent his career working for accounting firm Ernst & Young.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2023
  • To be expected was a full accounting of federal spending, as well as an update on the ongoing war against the Rebels.
    — Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • With accountants on the witness stand and Trump at the defense table for a third day, his attorneys tried to pin blame on accounting firms for any problems with the statements.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Top executives in accounting firms like Deloitte earn way more as base pay plus a yearly bonus.
    — Ali Shahbaz, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But Yellen has since used various accounting measures to avoid breaching it.
    — Christopher Rugaber and Fatima Hussein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
  • The bank account seems to be the result of ongoing accounting troubles for the state arising from a computer system transition in the late 2010s.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • His younger brother, Alex, was just two months away from earning his accounting degree when a Percocet laced with fentanyl killed him.
    — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The financial services salesman always has had a penchant for numbers and figured that accounting would be a good fit.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Lem was promoted from the role of chief accounting officer, VP and treasurer.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Connors is accused of knowingly submitting a false accounting and receipts of the firearms sold.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • This article is the fullest accounting yet of their relationship.
    — Megan Twohey, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Critics of the hire have framed Dilfer as a high school coach, but that’s a dishonest accounting of his experience (and not to mention an unfair shot at high school coaches).
    — Joseph Goodman, al, 29 Aug. 2023

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