creative accounting
English
editNoun
editcreative accounting (uncountable)
- (business, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) Financial accounting practices which are usually not explicitly illegal, but which are unorthodox, imaginative, usually misleading, and of questionable ethics.
- 2002 December 23, R. Boyes, R. Owen, A. Sage, “Europe's economies face a winter of discontent”, in The Times, London:
- 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.
Translations
editunorthodox accounting
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See also
edit- cook the books (verb)
References
edit- “creative accounting”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.