bean counter

Two years ago the "bean counters" at the UK's top economic institutions were just about to come directly into the line of fire.

The current CEO is a bean counter who does not seem to understand the complexity of the process and doesn’t live in Washington state, where the bulk of the work is still done.

She can understand that Boeing’s strength is in its engineering culture, not the bean counters.

In the back of our minds, though, we always suspected that, if anyone were to do us in, it would be the corporate bean counters.

To the bean counters among us, that could seem like a solution, but it’s only a reset if it allows the studios and platforms to address the systemic problem.