"creative accounting" meaning in English

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        "Financial accounting practices which are usually not explicitly illegal, but which are unorthodox, imaginative, usually misleading, and of questionable ethics."
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        "(business, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) Financial accounting practices which are usually not explicitly illegal, but which are unorthodox, imaginative, usually misleading, and of questionable ethics."
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          "word": "cook the books"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "chuàngyì kuàijì",
          "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
          "word": "創意會計 /创意会计"
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
          "word": "kreativní účetnictví"
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          "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
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          "word": "kreativ bogføring"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
          "word": "luova kirjanpito"
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "dimiourgikí logistikí",
          "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
          "word": "δημιουργική λογιστική"
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          "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chuàngyì kuàijì",
      "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
      "word": "創意會計 /创意会计"
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      "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
      "word": "kreativní účetnictví"
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      "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
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      "word": "kreativ bogføring"
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      "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
      "word": "luova kirjanpito"
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      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "dimiourgikí logistikí",
      "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
      "word": "δημιουργική λογιστική"
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      "sense": "unorthodox accounting",
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