The phrase "a fair accounting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need for an impartial or just assessment of a situation, often in financial or evaluative contexts.
Example: "The committee provided a fair accounting of the project's expenses and outcomes to ensure transparency."
Alternatives: "an honest assessment" or "a just evaluation."
But a fair accounting of the problems of the office of the independent counsel — the ever-expanding scope, length, and cost of its work, and its insistent focus on behavior that may not be criminal at all — suggest that these problems owe more to the nature of the law establishing the office than to any particular occupant.
But a fair accounting of the problems of the office of the independent counsel the ever-expanding scope, length, and cost of its work, and its insistent focus on behavior that may not be criminal at all suggest that these problems owe more to the nature of the law establishing the office than to any particular occupant.
Hence, at the very least, a fair accounting of repeal's fiscal impact should exclude this fictional $86 billion, and it should probably go several hundred billion dollars in the other direction; i.e., that repealing CLASS will reduce the deficit.
When you use a fair accounting of transfer students -- which the federal rates do not and in fact penalize institutions when students transfer by counting them as academic failures -- the numbers are even better.
The goal of the news media is to get at the truth, not to provide a "fair" accounting to both sides, especially when one side is manipulating the process or being fundamentally dishonest.
Is that a fair account of what goes on in the book?
The editor in chief thought this a fair account and analysis of Gamergate.
As for de Gaulle's public career, Fenby gives a fair account of his tempestuous relationship with Churchill.
The poignancy of that statement is that it is not really a fair account of the broader arc of American history, or even of the Democratic Party.
But there is a danger of cherrypicking the juiciest moments when tweeting court and possibly producing a report which is not a fair account of proceedings.
In addition I have talked to an independent person in the audience, who confirms that Drew's blog is a fair account of what happened on stage.
