accounting technique
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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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technique
noun[C or U]
uk/tekˈniːk/us/tekˈniːk/
a way of doing an activity that ...
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(Definition ofaccountingandtechniquefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A further, serious, limitation of the generationalaccountingtechniqueis that accounts for all age groups assume constant tax and transfer policies.
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Theaccountingtechniquehas, for all practical purposes, prevented what would otherwise be a common-sense policy.
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This may be merely a matter ofaccountingtechniquewhen it comes to management accounting in industry.
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I am in favour of output budgeting, anaccountingtechniqueby one which defines goals and has a breakdown in costs in terms of that target.
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Differences in theaccountingtechniquedo not imply differences in accounting results but differences in clarity and intelligibility.
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In policy-making circles, generational accounting techniques and claims about intergenerational justice have come to dominate on those occasions when the age-orientation of social policy regimes is under discussion.
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Creative accounting techniques are being adopted to keep certain aspects of expenditure down.
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What accounting techniques will be adopted in the final proposals?
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The problems of local authority accounting techniques have changed in the last seven years.
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One of the curiosities of accounting techniques is depreciation.
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The first is the use of cost accounting techniques.
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There were scandalous creative accounting techniques — over £700 million worth.
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There is the need for the development of effective reporting and accounting techniques.
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Many of the councils benefiting from the change are those that flouted public spending controls in the 1980s, often through creative accounting techniques that have since been made illegal.
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That would be extremely difficult because there is no agreement within the accountancy profession on some of the accounting techniques and standards which would need to be applied.
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This is a very wide issue yet it has been subjected to the narrowest of accounting techniques.
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There are questions of changes of accounting techniques particularly in allowing profit to be shown on a plant basis.
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I am sure that those creative accounting techniques have no bearing on the changes that we are discussing today.
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For example, recent advances in carbon cycle research, remote sensing and carbon accounting techniques have revealed that tropical deforestation accounts for 15% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
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Because the accounting techniques of the two models are different, they give differing, although complementary, analytical information.
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