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accounting

[uh-koun-ting] / əˈkaʊn tɪŋ /
NOUN
keeping financial accounts
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At Joon Um’s tax and accounting firm, new clients are told to finish their paperwork by March 1, or his team may be too busy to make the April 15 deadline.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

In 2025, 779,000 people lived alone in the South West, accounting for 30.4% of total households and the region has a higher proportion of older people living alone than the national average.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Guggenheim Investments is scrutinizing accounting firms and other white-collar service companies out of concern that artificial intelligence could potentially take out whole businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Turkey was the country where most abandonments took place, accounting for 61 cases last year.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Call it $300 billion, of which roughly $240 billion would have been triple-A-rated and thus treated, for accounting purposes, as riskless, and therefore unnecessary to disclose.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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