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accounting

[uh-koun-ting] / əˈkaʊn tɪŋ /
NOUN
keeping financial accounts
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Meanwhile, Thrive is currently rolling up accounting firms and other traditional businesses in hopes of injecting them with AI under a new effort called Thrive Holdings.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

“Especially in new developments, you have all these surprises, because everything is brand new,” Miklos Ringbauer, founder of MiklosCPA, a Southern California-based accounting and tax advisory company, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

In the first Premier League season in 1992-93, nine of the 22 clubs had technology sponsors, with Japanese companies accounting for five of them.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Some of the U.S. intelligence fed to the system was outdated, not accounting for the presence of the school.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

I’d never taken an accounting course, never run a business, never even had savings of my own to manage.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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