generally accepted

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ASC 820 also permits a buyer to use a loan’s NAV as a “practical expedient” if that value was calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

His Washington state license plate read 29028, the generally accepted height of Everest when he climbed it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The company said that the metric tracks customer activity and future cash inflows but isn’t a substitute for revenue under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

In one letter we’ve seen, the auditor writes that “these entities are subject to consolidation under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Aristotelian philosophy had been based on the idea that one ought to be able to deduce sciences from generally accepted first principles, so that all science would be comparable to geometry.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton