creative accounting

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creative accounting noun

(sometimes humorous) Financial accounting practices which are usually not explicitly illegal, but which are unorthodox, imaginative, usually misleading, and of questionable ethics.

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cookie-jar accounting hollywood accounting accounting tax accounting accounting cost sharp practice cash basis bookkeeping management accounting financial accounting econobabble chart of accounts contra-trading accounting equation accrual basis capital account

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