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Discover LudwigThe phrase "accounting maneuver" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing financial practices or strategies that may involve manipulation of accounting figures or methods.
Example: "The company employed an accounting maneuver to improve its financial statements before the audit."
Alternatives: "financial tactic" or "accounting strategy".
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U.S. ACCOUNTING RULEMAKERS HAVE gone halfway to curbing a misleading accounting maneuver we exposed a month ago.
REROLLS were not Computer Associates' only accounting maneuver, former employees and analysts say.
This sort of accounting maneuver is one reason JPMorgan's managers were so optimistic about the financial outlook of both acquisitions.
The accounting maneuver allowed MF Global to buy bonds issued by European countries and book profits the same day.
Specifically, the report focused on an accounting maneuver -- known inside Lehman as Repo 105 -- that it denounced as "materially misleading".
Analysts say that Bristol-Myers' use of the accounting maneuver far exceeds what other large drug companies have done.
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The state is running out of tricky accounting maneuvers.
But with the acquisition came another opportunity for raising earnings through an array of accounting maneuvers.
Executives at other Wall Street banks professed surprise at Lehman's accounting maneuvers.
Big acquisitions were key to the accounting maneuvers, employees and analysts say.
But some of his harshest words are reserved for Ernst & Young and the accounting maneuvers it permitted.
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