- present participle of account.
accounting
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These products make up a substantial portion of children's diets, accounting for approximately 67% of the calories consumed by children in the United States.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Revenue from services for tax, audit and accounting professionals similarly advanced 11% to $276 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The garment industry generates nearly $40bn every year for Bangladesh, accounting for around 10% of its GDP.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
“People who went through this would say, ‘I have seen this movie before,’” Feng Gu, an accounting professor at the University of Buffalo, told MarketWatch last week after reports of the Marvell-Lumentum deal began surfacing.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 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
Vocabulary lists containing accounting
Fish in a Tree
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 1-3
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"CLEP Financial Accounting," Vocabulary from Chapter 5
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