accounting department

collocation in English

meaningsofaccountinganddepartment

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accounting
noun[U]
uk
/əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/us
/əˈkaʊn.t̬ɪŋ/
the skill or activity of keeping records of the money a person or organization earns ...
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department
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/dɪˈpɑːt.mənt/us
/dɪˈpɑːrt.mənt/
a part of an organization such as a school, business, or government that deals with a particular area of study ...
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(Definition ofaccountinganddepartmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Those who were put into theaccountingdepartmentappear to have been inexperienced.
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I don't want to mess up theiraccountingdepartment.
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Large accounting firms often have a forensicaccountingdepartment.
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Let us say that a mistake is made by someone in theaccountingdepartmentand a man or a woman receives the wrong wages.
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From the latter position he moved to the utility company'saccountingdepartmentin 1938.
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Ouraccountingdepartmenthas by this time worked out a system of checking which is quite good enough, to ensure that the funds shall not be misapplied.
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Will this phrase include work in theaccountingdepartmentof an insurance broker or will it include only experience within the insurance broking and the insurance company worlds?
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The membership department might list the customer by name, whereas theaccountingdepartmentmight list the customer by number.
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Her or his staff usually works with theaccountingdepartmentto ensure that vendors are paid on schedule.
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They typically handle both the duties of the front desk agent and some of the duties of theaccountingdepartment.
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When the annotated reports are completed and returned to the billing oraccountingdepartment, the entire transaction must be manually input into the billing system.
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He also served as head of theaccountingdepartmentfrom 1912 to 1922, when he resigned to devote full-time to his professional accounting practice.
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The following year, he accepted appointment as director of the tribalaccountingdepartment, where he was responsible for development and improvement of tribal accounting systems.
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Other department heads who were dismissed came from the circulation department, the production department, the marketing department and theaccountingdepartment.
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At the same time all other activities necessary for the company were set up and organised, from the commercial to theaccountingdepartment.
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Often the trend lines were generated by theaccountingdepartment, and lacked discussions of demographics, or qualitative differences in social conditions.
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Most companies employ their ownaccountingdepartmentor hire prestigious accounting companies whose expertise is mainly to monitor the companys budget in relation to their expenses and income.
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