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creative accounting

noun

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  1. Financial accounting practices which are usually not explicitly illegal, but which are…

    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.

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