"creative accounting" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} creative accounting (uncountable)
  1. (business, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) Financial accounting practices which are usually not explicitly illegal, but which are unorthodox, imaginative, usually misleading, and of questionable ethics. Tags: euphemistic, humorous, sometimes, uncountable Categories (topical): Accounting, Business Related terms: cook the books [verb] Translations (unorthodox accounting): 創意會計 (Chinese Mandarin), 创意会计 (chuàngyì kuàijì) (Chinese Mandarin), kreativní účetnictví (Czech), kreativ bogføring [common-gender] (Danish), luova kirjanpito (Finnish), δημιουργική λογιστική (dimiourgikí logistikí) (Greek), kreatywna księgowość [feminine] (Polish)
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