The phrase "accounting figures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to numerical data or statistics related to financial accounts or reports.
Example: "The accounting figures for the last quarter indicate a significant increase in revenue."
Alternatives: "financial figures" or "financial data".
The defect of accounting figures is that they can easily be manipulated.
They are undoubtedly superior to traditional yardsticks of corporate performance, such as return on capital employed and earnings per share, which rely on accounting figures.
Afghan villagers were required to elect a council of men and women, devise their own goals — such as clean water or a new school — and make public their accounting figures.
Instead, we need to elevate "accrual accounting," which better measures the government's future pension responsibilities, to the same level of public visibility as the "cash accounting" figures that are now emphasized.
The question is for how long?" There are no reliable accounting figures measuring the length of time that Europe will suffer a 'carbon deficit' caused by the use of biomass for energy, in particular harvesting timber for that.
On the CBS program "60 Minutes," Mr. Scrushy said he had signed off on fraudulent accounting figures because he had trusted the five chief financial officers of HealthSouth, the chain of rehabilitation hospitals and surgical centers that he helped found in 1984.
I unfollowed @piersmorgan for reading out his follower account figures all the time and begging for more like a telethon.
Budapest rebounded by 8.2%, after better-than-expected current-account figures.In this section OFFICIAL AID ECONOMY FINANCIAL MARKETS Reprints.
A report released on Monday by the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (Fare) that took into account figures from Bocsar and other sources put the figures much higher.
It was those current-account figures, remember, that caused the dollar to plunge and forced the Fed to raise interest rates sharply.
Houses built on sand Correction: Standard & Poor's ReprintsNevertheless, the last time a gap opened up between the reported and national-accounts figures was in the late 1990s.
