"needs to account for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the need for something to be taken into consideration or accounted for. For example: "The company's budget needs to account for any unexpected costs that may arise."
Any plan needs to account for the reality that markets go down as well as up.
Algorithm selection needs to account for both qualitative and quantitative requirements.
The network design needs to account for the ways the resources and placement of assets are used by the users.
Fatigue reliability of bridge details needs to account for increased loads caused by the ever-increasing traffic flows and axle weights traversing a bridge.
To achieve this goal, the analysis needs to account for all the excitation sources and their interaction with all the transmission paths.
"It said 'Tzaruch shemirah' and 'Hasof bah,' " he said, "which essentially means that everyone needs to account for themselves because the end is near".
An offshore structure is exposed to fluctuating sea conditions, thus the fatigue analysis needs to account for many different wave heights and periods.
Security needs to account for all contingencies to prevent a loss that could come from putting all 10 million proverbial eggs in one basket.
We argue that such a theory needs to account for the semantics of agent interaction, and propose the first mathematical theory which does this.
Issues associated with longwall geomechanics are complex and any approach that attempts to characterise or design for it needs to account for this complexity.
HPR needs to account for the other principles in its implementation in order to sustain durable resistances over time and space.
