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Simple sentences
Sami wanted to join the accounting department.
There is no accounting for taste.
Do you do double-entry accounting or traditional governmental accounting?
Power plants are the largest major source of emissions in the U.S., together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas pollution.
There is no accounting for tastes.
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Well, there's no accounting for tastes, you know.
As you know the accounting director died of the white plague 3 days ago.
Accounting director.
If only I could work as an accounting director elsewhere, yet one usually attains such position in old age.
I've never had an accounting from you or that thieving Lopez either.
My clients demand an accounting.
And you're accounting on Ollivetti as I see, right?
Good. - Here is the accounting.
Once a year, you bring your accounting. And once a year, I find myself wealthier.
When they tell me they've no way of accounting for their condition. I am compelled to believe them.
We've discovered 23 million in undocumented payments on Dairyu's books. Miura in accounting can't explain them.
There's a little emergency in the accounting department.
Accounting is more where the problem lies.
I learnt a great deal more from him, accounting, cost-price, even something about computers.
Complete accounting.
I rang his office. I rang accounting.
And you did that on only 50 percent of the profits. for old Wilson at the colliery was holding you to a strict accounting.
There's no accounting for the workings of the criminal mind.
I'm afraid you'll find those 20,000 tons of rock and stuff will do the accounting, sheriff.
I'll do the accounting now and leave tomorrow morning.
In that connection, I'm setting up a central overall accounting system. that will enable us, at any given moment. to get a clear picture of our financial operations.
John Byrne's Accounting Office.
You're accounting' to me.
But the sales don't have anything to do with accounting, Mr. Callew.
There's no accounting for taste.
Another woman, quite sane, so she can do her accounting.
I learned engraving from a counterfeiter, accounting from a swindler.
Now we demand an accounting.
The airplane engines accounting for most of it, I suppose.
CC Baxter, Ordinary Premium Accounting.
Well about a year ago, I was going to night school, studying advanced accounting.
He's in Ordinary Premium Accounting.
You'll have to teach me some accounting.
She started working as an accounting clerk.
They've put some accounting documents on their table.
News and current affairs
The Arthur Anderson and Enron scandals in America have focused attention on the problems of accounting in private businesses.
But the scale of this corruption should not blind us to the problem of public sector accounting, where many deceitful things are also being done.
Accounting rules are designed to provide standardized frameworks within which the financial position of a firm, or government, can be assessed.
Bad accounting frameworks always lead to bad information, and bad information leads to bad decisions, with serious long term consequences.
America's business scandals showed how accounting rules can be bent and abused to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a company.
The Bush Administration, not to be left behind, has shown how public accounting rules can be bent so as to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a national economy.
But America is not alone in allowing for official accounting shenanigans.
In Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world, the IMF imposes accounting frameworks that not only make little sense, but result in excessive austerity.
Other IMF accounting practices, including how the capital expenditures of government-owned enterprises are treated, are also causing outrage.
A second IMF accounting distortion involves stabilization funds.
But IMF accounting inhibits the use of these funds to help stabilize an economy through counter-cyclical fiscal spending.
IMF accounting frameworks, rather than providing useful signals to the market, provide distorted information that exacerbates a troubled country's problems.
Investment in statistical capacity would help governments and businesses worldwide to make better policy decisions, based on a more accurate accounting of the associated costs and benefits.
The Arthur Anderson, Enron, and WorldCom scandals didn't emerge out of thin air, but had their origins in the mid-1990s, when the US Treasury actually intervened to stop attempts by the supposedly independent accounting standards board to improve matters.
Clear, too, was the fact that, in promoting its tax cuts, the Bush Administration was engaging (on a multi-billion dollar scale) in dishonest, Enron-like accounting.
Once sacrosanct accounting principles have been amended at Wall Street's behest in order to allow banks to report essentially whatever they want.
The official national income accounting data for the second quarter are now available, and they show that the rebates did very little to stimulate spending.