How to Use accounting in a Sentence

accounting

noun

• Macy’s was forced to delay its quarterly earnings report because of the accounting problem.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn and Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
• This improvement was partly due to an accounting change in the revenue recognition period for service contracts.
  — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2024
• At last accounting, there was $13 million cash in the bank.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
• There's the accounting of how many felled trees have struck cars, ripped down roofs, and taken lives.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
• The cost of that dinner was recorded in accounting books as $2,800.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• This is an earnest accounting of the West that didn’t make it into most John Wayne movies.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2023
• Again, note that there could be some sketchy accounting here.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
• If not, he’s got his accounting degree to fall back on.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• In your accounting, your meetings matter to him and don’t cost you very much.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• An accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• One woman has a job offer in the accounting area from Deloitte at a very high salary.
  — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2023
• Sanders has blamed an accounting error for the dispute.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• The new accounting shows windows began breaking in 2017, the year the building opened.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
• And then there’s all the accounting paperwork to be done after winning a grant.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• And fabrics stacked in bolts is an accounting, the horizontal folds like lines in a ledger.
  — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
• For thirty years, his mother worked in the accounting office at the U.C.L.A. student store.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• But a final accounting will take time, or may never come.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Sarah Dadouch and Kareem Fahim, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Now, in the tragic accounting of one of the world’s most entrenched conflicts, everyone is.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
• On the film front, the streamers often got in early, with pre-buys accounting for 79% of all investments.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
• Any honest accounting of their play swerved once again Saturday night, and not in a way that would make any of them want to keep reading.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Again, note this project was released on June 16 (less than two weeks before the end of the report’s accounting period).
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• Our budgets include all of that, so there’s some accounting context that gets lost.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
• With the petition Oher wants a full accounting of the money the Tuohy’s earned using Oher’s name, and to have the couple pay him his fair share of profits.
  — Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• One way to insure that your show has a record-breaking count of Vermeers is to be inclusive in your accounting.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Remember: this isn’t an accounting of your life’s progress.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• That makes way more sense than accounting and economics.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2022
• That accounting trick has been easier to prove out on paper than in practice.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• Betsy Brint, the group’s chair, said in a statement the foundation will later share an accounting of its cash and in-kind donations.
  — John Keilman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• But the law was passed as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to prevent destruction of evidence in the wake of the Enron accounting scandal.
  — Susan Shelley, Orange County Register, 18 June 2024
• The next accounting maneuver that Yellen can take, in early June, is one that will have no real long-term impact if the debt ceiling is raised.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 23 May 2023

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024