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cookie-jar accounting

cookie-jar accounting noun: an accounting practice in which a company takes a quantity of large reserves from an economically successful year and incurs them against losses from less successful years.

Noun

cookie-jar accounting (uncountable)

  1. An accounting practice in which a company takes a quantity of large reserves from an economically successful year and incurs them against losses from less successful years.

Questions about cookie-jar accounting

What does cookie-jar accounting mean?
Cookie-jar accounting means an accounting practice in which a company takes a quantity of large reserves from an economically successful year and incurs them against losses from less successful years.
What part of speech is cookie-jar accounting?
Cookie-jar accounting is a noun.

Words near cookie-jar accounting in the dictionary

  1. cookie-cutter
  2. cookie-cuttered
  3. cookie-cuttering
  4. cookie-cutterish
  5. cookie-cutters
  6. cookie-jar accounting
  7. cookie-jar reserve
  8. cookie-jar reserves
  9. cookie-pop
  10. cookie-pops
  11. cookie-shine

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