How to Use accounting in a Sentence

accounting

noun

• Steve runs his accounting business digitally, with all files stored in the cloud.
  — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
• Carbon offset programs are plagued by shoddy accounting, inconsistencies, and fraud.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 21 July 2022
• This spares businesses from using their accounting departments or needing to get banking information.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2022
• New tallies were added Tuesday to the merciless accounting that measures the losses from Russia’s invasion.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• Big universities were never going to choose athletic conferences based on carbon accounting.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025
• On Wednesday, Just Eat said its first-half net loss had significantly widened because of the accounting charge linked to Grubhub.
  — Peter Stiff, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
• The company plans to address these issues by seeking qualified accounting staff and establishing an audit committee.
  — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2025
• Stimmel earned a bachelor of science degree in business-accounting from the University of Dayton.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 2 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The club is seeking to recoup the full $8.5 million from the accounting firm.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The divisions that have seen the most killings, though, have been the Third, Fourth and Sixth - each accounting for at least 16 homicides.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 9 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Netflix is on the hunt for a new chief accounting officer.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025