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creative accounting en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, humorous, sometimes, uncountable) Financial accounting practices which are usually not explicitly illegal, but which are unorthodox, imaginative, usually misleading, and of questionable ethics.
    • Italy’s public deficit is within the EU limit of 3 per cent of GDP, but only with the help of some creative accounting by the Government’s number-crunchers. 2002 December 23, R. Boyes, R. Owen, A. Sage, “Europe's economies face a winter of discontent”, in The Times, London:

Relateds

cook the books

Translations (6)

da kreativ bogføring (unorthodox accounting) · fi luova kirjanpito (unorthodox accounting) · cmn 創意會計 /创意会计 (unorthodox accounting) · el δημιουργική λογιστική (unorthodox accounting) · pl kreatywna księgowość (unorthodox accounting) · cs kreativní účetnictví (unorthodox accounting)