Example collocations logo

Accounting in sentence

821 examples of Accounting in a sentence

Although accounting rules often permit banks to price these assets at face value, it is generally believed that the fundamental value of many toxic assets has fallen significantly below face value.
Rather than estimate the economic value of banks’ assets – what the assets would fetch in a well-functioning market – and the extent to which they exceed liabilities, the stress tests merely sought to verify that the banks’ accounting losses over the next two years will not exhaust their capital as recorded in their books.
In 2011, France’s ratio of new debt to GDP was three times higher than Germany’s, with the public sector accounting for more than 56% of national income.
Five years ago, Pan Yingli of Shanghai Jiao Tong University projected that, without accounting for other currencies’ incumbency advantage, the renminbi’s share of foreign-exchange reserves worldwide could reach 26% by 2025 (about the current level of the euro).
Accounting for the incumbency advantage, the share falls to 10%.
And its intensifying political crisis – impeachment proceedings have now been initiated against President Dilma Rousseff for allegedly using irregular accounting maneuvers to disguise the size of the budget deficit – is raising serious questions about who can provide the much-needed treatment.
The correspondence of savings minus investment with exports minus imports is not an economic theory; it’s an accounting identity.
Perhaps less conspicuous, the EU’s decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards in 2000-2002 triggered an extraordinary move toward the global harmonization of accounting rules.
Later, corporate governance scandals in Asia and then in the US, notably after the dot-com bubble and the accounting debacles at Enron, WorldCom, and others, encouraged Europeans to think that the “old continent” had somehow preserved higher standards.
These programs currently claim 21% of the budget, with Medicare accounting for two-thirds of that amount.
Though all cells in the body have the same DNA, only a subset of the genes encoded by the DNA is expressed in each cell type, thus accounting for the difference between, say, a skin cell, a liver cell, and a brain cell.
So, if we do the accounting, the US today must owe the rest of the world roughly $12.4 trillion (13.3 minus 0.9).
The Arctic region has always been strategically vital for Russia, accounting for roughly 85% of Russia’s natural-gas production, which is based primarily in Western Siberia.
Today software written in India rides the satellite to a building site in Chicago or an accounting firm in New York, or anywhere else in the world.
With the EU accounting for half of British trade turnover, the impact on exporters could be devastating (despite a more competitive exchange rate).
One way to break the stalemate is a change in public accounting standards.
A highly sanitized and sentimental historical accounting of the 1950s and 1960s might seem to suggest that the civil-rights movement succeeded merely by appealing to arch-American political principles of freedom and equality.
If Africa’s economies are to absorb the 122 million young people expected to enter the labor force in the next few years, we must get the accounting right – starting now.
This type of single accounting would reduce the central bank’s equity capital, unless it realized (sold) valuation reserves on its balance sheet.
Proponents defend this approach by claiming that central banks are subject to special accounting rules that could be adjusted as needed.
And while ECB President Mario Draghi has highlighted the technical, legal, and accounting obstacles that stand in the way of helicopter drops by his institution, he has not ruled them out.
Banks are also using accounting tricks to hide trillions in further exposures.
In principle, the IMF could be allowed to print money (it already has its own accounting unit, the so-called Special Drawing Rights).
While the oil market is the largest determinant of Russia’s near-term economic prospects, accounting as it does for half of export revenues, long-term growth requires Russia to re-enter international capital markets, attract foreign investment (and stem capital flight), and reintegrate with the global economy.
The EU should, for example, allow R&D spending (and some spending on active labor-market policies targeting young people) to be left out of member states’ deficit accounting.
A common energy policy must be based on the single market and collective planning of investment, while also accounting for the mix of sources and purchases from third parties.
Rather than improving services and living conditions in areas where it could have helped consolidate peace, the government, at America’s behest, will allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to pay investment banks, accounting firms, and legal advisors who assist with that refinancing.
In its recent reports, the FSB has concentrated on capital requirements, on closing legal loopholes that allow banks to evade them, and on improving accounting standards.
One key sign is the documented change in the character of oil trading, with speculators (i.e., financial institutions and hedge funds) now accounting for 70% of trades, up from 37% seven years ago.
The current European and global frameworks for accounting standards and capital requirements, for example, have exacerbated turmoil in the markets.
BackNext