Accounting in sentence

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Jobs that require lower skills and less training are particularly vulnerable; but it is also clear that many other occupational categories – including administration, accounting, logistics, banking, and various service activities – are likely to be affected.

The region has 23 million small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), accounting for roughly 90% of the private sector, but SMEs receive just 8% of total bank lending.

But Germany is Hungary’s largest economic partner, accounting for more than 30% of exports and more than half of foreign direct investment.

And, until Greece’s crisis in 2010, the country’s fiscal deficits and debt burden were thought to be much smaller than they were, thanks to the use of financial derivatives and creative accounting by the Greek government.

The UAE enjoys substantial hydrocarbon resources, with oil and gas output accounting for 45% of GDP and 80% of national income, and fueling the country’s economic growth.

It is a composite accounting unit in which the IMF issues credits to its members.

Enron used fancy accounting tricks and complicated financial products (derivatives) to mislead investors about its value.

In office, he had intervened when the supposedly independent board for setting accounting standards tried to clean up the accounting of senior executives' share options.

Partly thanks to him, this effort to make corporate accounting more transparent was stymied.

The new economy - and its complicated new financial instruments - enhance the problems of reliable accounting frameworks; they make it easier to obfuscate.

The government may pretend that it has not experienced a capital loss, because, unlike banks, it is not required to use mark-to-market accounting.

The IMF endorsed legal standards and codes of best practice developed by other institutions, but also promotes the development of new standards, including accounting and auditing standards, securities market regulations, bankruptcy law, codes for corporate governance, insurance and banking regulations.

With the exception of highly technical rules, such as accounting standards, the contents and interpretation of rules is dependent on the context in which they are enforced.

With household consumption accounting for about 70% of the US economy, that 2.7-percentage-point gap between pre-crisis and post-crisis trends has been enough to knock 1.9 percentage points off the post-crisis trend in real GDP growth.

The new paper opens a different path: it suggests revising and harmonizing national accounting, in order to gauge better the vulnerability of eurozone members’ public finances; ensuring that banks’ creditors, rather than governments, pay when crisis strikes; decentralizing fiscal discipline by requiring each country to adopt a constitutional rule on the stability of the debt ratio; and curbing countries’ contingent liabilities by adjusting pension systems to demographic ageing.

Second, the volatile “carry trade” is notoriously difficult to measure, because most of it is conducted through derivatives in options, forwards, and swaps, which are treated as off-balance sheet – that is, as net numbers that are below the line in accounting terms.

They also tended to do disproportionately well in the learned professions – such as medicine, law, and accounting – that are so central to modern capitalist society.

And a growing number of investors care about climate change, with 26% of asset managers (accounting for more than $12 trillion of assets under management) reporting that it factors into their investment decisions.

As the world’s largest polluter, accounting for roughly a quarter of global carbon emissions, America’s reluctance to do more is perhaps understandable, if not forgivable.

With Africa’s school-age population accounting for roughly one-third of the total, the per capita financing requirement is about $100.

(To engage in some macabre accounting, the difference is that hundreds of thousands have died in Syria, versus a few thousand in Yemen.)

Although the expansion of exports has been dramatic, now accounting for 70% of China’s GDP, it has exerted no pull on other economic sectors, because it has been confined to foreign-owned manufacturing and assembling enterprises.

From an accounting perspective, dollars held outside the US are liabilities, and observers have long worried that the US may not be able to service its ever-mounting foreign-debt “overhang” indefinitely.

The shares of the major reserve currencies were stable, with the dollar accounting for 62% of foreign-exchange reserves in 2009 and the euro 27%.

At Nanyang Technological University, females comprised only 27% of the undergraduate computer-science program in 2015-2016, despite accounting for half of all undergraduates at the university.

And with the G20 and the OECD working to stop tax avoidance, Africa may soon benefit from global efforts to end shady accounting.

In the midst of a major employment crisis, technology continues to reduce the labor needed for mass production, while the automation of routine legal and accounting tasks is hollowing out that sector of the job market as well.

Since 2015, China has taken the lead in e-commerce worldwide, with online purchases accounting for 18% of total retail sales, compared to just 8% in the US.

We have also pledged to improve financial accounting, so that the costs of climate change and the benefits of climate action are incorporated into economic policymaking.

It is a fundamental national-income accounting identity that must hold for every country in every year.

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